Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Dracocephalum nutans L. |
Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 596 (1753) |
Native Range | s. European Russia to Russian Far East |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
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 | perennial |
Cultivation | sunny 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 |
Synonyms | Dracocephalum alpinum Turcz. Dracocephalum microphyllum Turcz. Dracocephalum nutans ssp. subarcticum Kuvaev Ruyschiana nutans (L.) House Zornia nutans (L.) Moench |
Territory | 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (RUS South European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KHA Khabarovsk, PRM Primorye) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (WHM West Himalaya) |