Whole carpets of Asarabacca are often found embellishing the undergrowth of broad-leaved forests, particularly in hilly country, in soils rich in humus. However, this favoured environment is not its only one: it is present, too, in shaded scree forests, ash/maple woodlands, mixed beech forests, and waterside ash woods. This is a plant of Europe and Siberia, although its numbers in Europe decline towards the north-west and it is extremely rare, and probably not native, in Britain.
In western Europe, it forms distinctive communities in hornbeam woodlands. Together with many other herbs it contributes to the wealth of their undergrowth. It also occurs in acid soil, oak forests, or rather testifies to their subsidiary development where oak/hornbeam stands once stood. Greater Stitchwort is common in fertile soils, waterside thickets, and on colluvial as well as alluvial deposits. It also occurs in hedgerows, shrub growth, and forest margins.
Ramsons' association with various kinds of forest indicates a certain adaptability to soil acidity: it is a plant which likes some acid soils as well as some neutral to slightly alkaline soils.
Greater Stitchwort is distributed in Europe and western Siberia, but appears to be absent in the Alps. The range of S. nemorum extends to the more westerly parts of Europe.
Ramsons is a bulb that is narrowly elongate, measuring from 2-6 cm in length, with whitish yellow scales. The flowering stem is either triangular or semi-circular. There arc usually only two basal leaves on a flowering plant, each 2-5 cm wide with long stalks. The flower complex is semi-circular. White and star-like individual flowers are produced from April in the lowlands and to June at higher elevations.
Perhaps it is the scent which has given rise to the suggestion - not confirmed by experts - that the plants are pollinated by snails, a notion reinforced by the fact the flowers are clustered so close to the ground. The seeds of asarums are dispersed by ants. - 16477
In western Europe, it forms distinctive communities in hornbeam woodlands. Together with many other herbs it contributes to the wealth of their undergrowth. It also occurs in acid soil, oak forests, or rather testifies to their subsidiary development where oak/hornbeam stands once stood. Greater Stitchwort is common in fertile soils, waterside thickets, and on colluvial as well as alluvial deposits. It also occurs in hedgerows, shrub growth, and forest margins.
Ramsons' association with various kinds of forest indicates a certain adaptability to soil acidity: it is a plant which likes some acid soils as well as some neutral to slightly alkaline soils.
Greater Stitchwort is distributed in Europe and western Siberia, but appears to be absent in the Alps. The range of S. nemorum extends to the more westerly parts of Europe.
Ramsons is a bulb that is narrowly elongate, measuring from 2-6 cm in length, with whitish yellow scales. The flowering stem is either triangular or semi-circular. There arc usually only two basal leaves on a flowering plant, each 2-5 cm wide with long stalks. The flower complex is semi-circular. White and star-like individual flowers are produced from April in the lowlands and to June at higher elevations.
Perhaps it is the scent which has given rise to the suggestion - not confirmed by experts - that the plants are pollinated by snails, a notion reinforced by the fact the flowers are clustered so close to the ground. The seeds of asarums are dispersed by ants. - 16477
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