Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Clinopodium album (Waldst. & Kit.) Bräuchler & Govaerts |
Bibliography | Phytotaxa 356: 71 (2018) |
Native Range | Hungary to n. Italy and w. Balkan Peninsula |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | stony grassland |
Description | leaves 5-20mm long, elliptic to ovate, remotely dentate, abaxially glandular punctate, flowers 5-9mm long, in shortly branched racemes, producing spicate panicle |
Size | 20-40cm |
Color | whitish violet |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny site with a deep, drained soil alpine house, rich, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Calamintha rupestris (Wulfen) Host Calamintha thymifolia (Scop.) Rchb. Calamintha officinalis var. alba (Waldst. & Kit.) Nyman Cuspidocarpus rupestris (Wulfen) Spenn. Cuspidocarpus thymifolius (Scop.) Kuntze Melissa alba Waldst. & Kit. Melissa thymifolia (Scop.) Benth. Mentha croatica (Spreng.) Welden Micromeria rupestris (Wulfen) Benth. Micromeria thymifolia (Scop.) Benth. Nepeta croatica Spreng. Nepeta pumila Spreng. Satureja rupestris Wulfen Satureja thymifolia Scop. Thymus albus (Waldst. & Kit.) Link Thymus duinensis Moretti ex Rchb. |
Territory | 1 Europe 11 Middle Europe (HUN Hungary) 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, ITA Italy, YUG Yugoslavia) |