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Accession Data:

Hebenstretia dura Choisy

  • Common Name: Cat's tail, Slugwort
  • Family: Scrophulariaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Eastern Cape to the Northern Province
  • Habitat: rocky grasslands in summer rainfall areas

  • Description: 100-400mm perennial herb with narrow leaves, terminal spikes of orange throated white flowers in early summer.
  • Culture: Sow seed in spring.
  • USDA Zone: 8b-10

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200100530
  • Source: John Silander ex Nat. Bot. Inst.
  • Accession Date: 09-01-2001
  • Bench: 2114 - MED:Fynbos F
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 03-27-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Lamiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Scrophulariaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe: Limoselleae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
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2003

References (internal):

  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Cape Provinces

References (external):

  1. Info from Seed Packet
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 21 May 2015.
  3. Hebenstretia dura from PlantzAfrica. Accessed 21 May 2015.

data regenerated on Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:57:07 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Hebenstretia dura

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Subfamily
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Subfamily
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  • Leucophyllum frutescens

Subfamily
Tribe Limoselleae

  • Hebenstretia dura

Subfamily
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Subfamily
Tribe Teedieae

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W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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