Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Meehania urticifolia (Miq.) Makino |
Bibliography | Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 13: 159 (1889) |
Native Range | s. Primorye to Korea, c. & s. Japan |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | thickets and woods |
Description | stoloniferous, trailing outgrowths up to 1m long, leaves 3-6cm long, broadly ovate, obtusely dentate, long petiolate, flowers 4-5cm long, in secund, lax spike |
Size | 20-40cm |
Color | bluish purple, 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 | Cedronella urticifolia (Miq.) Maxim. Dracocephalum pedunculatum Sessé & Moc. Dracocephalum sinense S.Moore Dracocephalum urticifolium Miq. Dracocephalum urticifolium f. carnosa Dunn Dracocephalum urticifolium f. normalis Dunn Dracocephalum urticifolium f. racemosa Dunn Dracocephalum urticifolium f. radicans Dunn Glechoma urticifolia (Miq.) Makino Meehania urticifolia f. leucantha H.Hara Meehania urticifolia f. normalis (Dunn) Hand.-Mazz. Meehania urticifolia f. racemosa (Dunn) Hand.-Mazz. Meehania urticifolia f. radicans (Dunn) Hand.-Mazz. Meehania urticifolia f. rosea J.Ohara Meehania urticifolia var. typica Kudo |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (PRM Primorye) 36 China (CHM Manchuria) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea) |