Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Stachys aegyptiaca Pers. |
Bibliography | Syn. Pl. 2: 124 (1806) |
Native Range | Egypt to Israel |
Primary Biome | Subtropical |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Description | appresed lanate-tomentose, branchlets flexuous, leaves subsessile, oblong or linear, obtuse, whorls 2-flowered, producing raceme, calyx tubular-campanulate, tomentose |
Size | 15-30cm |
Color | pink-purple |
Bloom | spring |
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 |
Synonyms | Stachys affinis Fresen. Stachys boveana Bois Stachys palaestina Vahl Stachys pauciflora Benth. |
Territory | 2 Africa 20 Northern Africa (EGY Egypt) 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (PAL Palestine, SIN Sinai) 35 Arabian Peninsula (SAU Saudi Arabia) |