Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Meehania pedunculata (Hemsl.) P.M.Sl. |
Bibliography | h.l., comb. nov. |
Native Range | s. China |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | thickets and woods |
Altitude | 1400-3500m |
Description | stems thick, very ramose, leaves triangular-ovate, petiolate, abaxially sparsely strigose, adaxially pilose, crenate, whorls many flowered in terminal raceme |
Size | 10-25cm |
Color | purple red |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in early spring; cuttings in spring |
Synonyms | Dracocephalum pedunculatum (Hemsl.) Diels Dracocephalum urticifolium var. pedunculatum Hemsl., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 26: 293 (1890) Meehania fargesii var. pedunculata (Hemsl.) C.Y.Wu Meehania urticifolia var. pedunculata (Hemsl.) Kudo |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHS China Southeast) |