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Meum athamanticum

Bald-money · Spignel · Spignel-meu

Family ApiaceaeGenus Meum

Flat heads of tiny white flowers on slender stems above fine, feathery leaves in a grassy meadow
FlowerDr. Sven GippnerCC BY 4.0
A plate of a feathery-leaved umbellifer: white and green flower heads above thread-fine foliage, with a fibrous crown and cut seeds drawn beside it.
IllustrationDr. Otto Wilhelm ThoméPublic domain

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
perennialPlants of the World Online
Flower
WhiteRead from the photograph on this page
Native range
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France and elsewhereGBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

  • Spignel is the only species in its genus, a highly aromatic plant of mountain grassland in western and central Europe. In Britain it is also called baldmoney. Wikipedia: Meum

This source reports two treatments. Both are shown.

Protocol 1

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty High Rated by us, not by the source.

Start around February 15, 2027 for a May 3 last frost.

  1. Cold moist stratification

    Temperature: 40°F 4°C

Germination happens during step 1, in 49 days.

29% germination in 49 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Meum p. 178Public domain
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Meum (Apiaceae). M. athamanticum germ. 40(2/7 in 7th w) and 70-40(2/8 in 5th w).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Meum p. 178. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

Protocol 2

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty High Rated by us, not by the source.

Start around December 1, 2026 for a May 3 last frost.

  1. Warm moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 70°F 21°C

  2. Cold moist stratification

    Duration: 90 daysTemperature: 40°F 4°C

about 3 months from start to step 2. Germination happens during step 2, in 35 days.

25% germination in 35 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Meum p. 178Public domain
Show the original text
Meum (Apiaceae). M. athamanticum germ. 40(2/7 in 7th w) and 70-40(2/8 in 5th w).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Meum p. 178. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

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