Asperula laevigata

Description

Asperula laevigata grows as a perennial herbaceous plant with uniting heaps between 15 and 80 cm high.It forms a "rootstock-like" shoot axis system with slim foothills.The more or less weak,quadrangular,ascending to upright stems rarely branch out at the base and are glabrous.Asperula laevigata does not become black when drying.The foliage leaves are placed to the fourth branch of the stalk.The simple,non-hairy leaf blade is elliptical to egg-shaped,with a length of 4.9 to 25 millimeters and a width of (rarely 3.5 to) 4 to 10 (rare to 11) millimeters,narrows to a stalk-like,slightly lighter color Base and has a more or less rounded blade tip.It has a prickly main vein and a distinct,reticular leaf nerve.The leaf margins are sparsely hairy in several rows.The flowers with 0.5 to 2 millimeters long stalks of flowers stand in oblong-pyramidal whole flower stands and somewhat zymösen partial flower stands with lanzettliche to filiform -shaped leaflets.The hermaphroditic flowers are radial-symmetrical and quadruple.The cup is reduced.The four white,1.3 to 2 millimeter long petals are hairless and funnel-shaped.The crown consists of the 0.7 to 1.2 millimeter long corolla tube and the approximately 0.5 to 0.7 millimeter long and wide corolla lobe.The stamens have 0.2 to 0.4 millimeters in length,and egg-shaped to spherical yellow dust bags which are 0.2 to 0.3 millimeters in size and do not protrude from the crown.The 1 to 1.5 millimeters of fruit are dry,grainy and glabrous.