Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Satureja spicigera (K.Koch) Boiss. |
Bibliography | Fl. Orient. 4: 566 (1879) |
Native Range | Caucaus to nw. Iran and ne. Turkey |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocks and scree |
Altitude | 500-1500m |
Description | stems densely leafy, leaves deep green, narrowly oblanceolate-linear to linear-subulate, acute, soft, cymes 3-flowered, crowded in secund spike |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | late summer, autumn |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C cuttings in late spring |
Synonyms | Clinopodium alternipilosum (K.Koch) Kuntze Clinopodium spicigerum (K.Koch) Kuntze Hyssopus majae A.P.Khokhr. Micromeria alternipilosa K.Koch Micromeria spicigera K.Koch Satureja alternipilosa (K.Koch) K.Koch Satureja diffusa Benth. ex Boiss. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 33 Caucasus (NCS North Caucasus, TCS Transcaucasus) 34 Western Asia (IRN Iran, TUR Turkey) |