Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Stachys citrina Boiss. & Heldr. ex Benth. |
Habitat | rocks and scree |
Altitude | 1500-2600m |
Description | densely yellow-grey tomentose, leaves rugose, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, obscurely crenate, petiolate, whorls in ovate head, bracts lanceolate, minute |
Size | 10-30cm |
Color | lemmon yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | + |
Type | subshrub |
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, 18-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Africa
Northern Africa Asia-Temperate Western Asia (Turkey) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | LAMIACEAE
citrina chamaesideritis (Boiss. & Balansa) R.Bhattacharjee, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 33(2): 281 (1974)
citrina zaiana Emb. & Maire, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afrique N. 23: 208 (1932)
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