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Eremocarpus
setigerus
(Hook.) Benth.
Doveweed, Turkey-mullein (syn. Croton setiger)
 Family:
Euphorbiaceae
Habit:
Low, broad, gray, heavy-scented annual with stellate pubescence
and longer stinging hairs. Monoecious. Seeds often eaten by
doves and quail.
Distribution:
Common in dry open places, coastal sage scrub, grassland,
foothill and oak woodlands below 2500 feet; from California to
Washington.
Seed unit:
Free seed or one-seeded capsule.
Seed:
3 to 4 mm., smooth or ridged, scar not appendaged, gray or
mottled.
Embryo:
Linear embryo.
 Purity
instructions:
Pure seed definition:
AOSA:
PSU #30 – Intact fruit segment, whether or not a seed is
present. Piece of broken fruit segment larger than one-half of
the original size, unless no seed is present. Seed, with or
without seed coat. Piece of broken seed, with or without seed
coat, larger than one-half the original size.
Lab notes:
Samples of this species usually contain mostly free seeds.
However, some seeds may be tightly enclosed within one-seeded
capsules, which are considered seed units.
Average pure
seed units per gram:
175 seeds per gram (based on AOSA pure seed units only from 33
samples received for testing from 1992 to 2004).
Range of
percent pure seed:
93 to 99%
Range of
percent inert:
1 to 5%
Description
of inert:
Dirt, live insects, broken seed, plant material.
Planting
instructions:
400 seeds, T, 21 days @ 20°C; for fresh and dormant seed,
prechill recommended.
References:
(link
to main reference page)
Hickman,
J.C., Ed. 1993. p. 573.
Munz, P.A. and D.D. Keck. 1968. p. 162.
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