Nepeta italica
Nepeta italica
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Ssp italica; Ssp rigidula; Ssp cadmea
Perennial; stems erect, usually branched, 30-80 cm, forming tufts, finely adpressed eglandular-pilose below, above either densely glandular with papillae or ± eglandular with pubescent to sublanate hairs and some sessile glands. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, 1.5-4 x 1-3 cm, pubescent to canescent with numerous sessile glands, crenate, cordate; petiole to 20 mm. Inflorescence of distant many-flowered scarcely pedunculate verticillasters. Bracteoles linear-lanceolate to linear-elliptic, 4.5-8 x 1-2.2 mm, often ± rigid and incurved, mucronate, usually with a ± broad white membranous margin. Calyx ± tubular, wider above, 7-9 mm, green or purplish, glandular-papillose, slightly curved, scarcely oblique at mouth; teeth linear-lanceolate, acuminate, c. 3 mm. Corolla white, 11-12 mm; tube narrow, wider above, curved. Nutlets oblong, trigonous, c. 1.5-2 x 1 mm, tuberculate. Fl. 5-7. With Quercus spp, , rocky limestone and volcanic slopes, dried stream beds, shady banks, s.l.-1300 m.
Italy, N. Iraq, Latakia, W. Syria, Syrian Desert.
subsp. rigidula
Differing from subsp. ltalica by stems, bracts, and calyx shortly pubescent; from subsp. cadmea A.L.Budantzev by calyx longer, corolla tube shorter than calyx and bracteoles without membranous margins. Fl. 7. 1300-2300 m.
Endemic. E. Medit. element.
