Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Clinopodium nepeta (L.) Kuntze |
Synonyms | Melissa nepeta L. |
Calamintha acinifolia Sennen | |
Calamintha dilatata Schrad. | |
Habitat | scree |
Description | softly grey pubescent, leaves minute, petiolate, ovate-rhombic, obtuse, crenate, cymes axillary, secund, producing raceme, bracts subulate, minute |
Size | 30-40cm |
Color | lilac, white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Europe
Middle Europe (Austria , Switzerland ) Southwestern Europe (Corse , France , Spain ) Southeastern Europe (Albania , Greece , Italy ) Africa Northern Africa Asia-Temperate Caucasus (Transcaucasus ) Western Asia (Iran , Turkey) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | LAMIACEAE
nepeta spruneri (Boiss.) Bartolucci & F.Conti, Inform. Bot. Ital. 43: 143 (2011)
nepeta subisodotum (Borbás) Govaerts, World Checkl. Seed Pl. 3(1): 18 (1999)
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