View source for Vinca ← Vinca You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Vinca |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=1: 209. 1753 |year=1753 }} |common_names=Periwinkle |special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status |code=I |label=Introduced }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Vinca |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Vinca]]</div></div> |etymology=Derivation uncertain; probably Latin vinco, to conquer, or vincio, to bind, alluding to binding and subduing other plants in its habitat |volume=Volume 14 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Suffrutescent </b>herbs [subshrubs]; latex milky. <b>Stems</b> trailing or ascending [erect], unarmed, glabrous or eglandular-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> persistent [deciduous], opposite, petiolate; stipular colleters absent; laminar colleters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, 1(–4)-flowered, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters absent; corolla blue-purple, blue-violet, violet, reddish purple, or white, rarely pale blue, rotate-funnelform, aestivation sinistrorse; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted at top of corolla tube; anthers connivent, not adherent to stigma, connectives appendiculate, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectaries 2. <b>Fruits</b> follicles, usually paired, erect, brown, slender, terete to somewhat moniliform, surface striate, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> narrowly ovoid to elliptic, navicular, not winged, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 23.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Europe;w Asia;introduced also widely. |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species 7 (2 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Several species of Vinca are widely cultivated as ornamentals throughout Europe and North America, but only two of these are treated as naturalized elements of our flora. Vinca herbacea Waldstein & Kitaibel has been collected several times from northwestern Massachusetts but is here considered a waif; it can be distinguished from V. major and V. minor by the entirely herbaceous growth habit, scabrous (versus ciliate or glabrous) leaf margins, and corolla lobes less than 6 mm wide.</p><!-- --><p>In Europe, species of Vinca have long been associated with death, being commonly planted in cemeteries and, during the Middle Ages, used in the making of wreaths that were sometimes worn as a crown by condemned persons on their way to execution.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaf blade margins ciliate; calyx lobes ciliate, 7–15 mm; seeds 7–10 mm. |[[Vinca major|Vinca major]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaf blade margins not ciliate; calyx lobes not ciliate, 3–4 mm; seeds 5–7 mm. |[[Vinca minor|Vinca minor]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Vinca |author=David E. Lemke |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Apocynaceae |distribution=Europe;w Asia;introduced also widely. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Sp. Pl. |publication year=1753 |special status=Introduced |source xml= |genus=Vinca }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Apocynaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Apocynaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/ID/Special status (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Vinca.