Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Dracocephalum nutans L. |
Synonyms | Dracocephalum alpinum Turcz. |
Dracocephalum microphyllum Turcz. | |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Description | leaves petiolate, broadly ovate, 8-23mm, pubescent, sharply serrate or dentate, whorls 8-12-flowered in axils of upper leaves, calyx purple, flowers 12-19mm long, pubescent |
Size | 20-25cm |
Color | blue |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in early spring; basal cuttings in late spring |
Territory |
Europe
Eastern Europe (South European Russia ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Khabarovsk , Primorye ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan , Kirgizistan , Tadzhikistan ) China (Inner Mongolia , Manchuria , Xinjiang ) Mongolia Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent (West Himalaya) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | LAMIACEAE
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