Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Nepeta supina Steven |
Synonyms | Nepeta caucasica Sommier & Levier |
Nepeta fissa Benth. | |
Habitat | rocks and scree |
Altitude | 1800-3000m |
Description | papilose-pubescent, leaves subsessile, minute, ovate, cuneate, crenate, whorls 2-3-flowered producing ovate spike, bracts lanceolate, calyx hirsute, corolla tube curvate |
Size | 10-30cm |
Color | blue, bluish violet |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft, fl. stem ascending |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C division in early spring; basal cuttings in late spring |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Caucasus (North Caucasus , Transcaucasus ) Western Asia (Turkey) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | LAMIACEAE
supina buschii (Sosn. & Manden.) Menitsky, Fl. Armen. 8: 42 (1987)
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