Stachys atherocalyx

Kalın deliçay

Suffrutescent, erect to procumbent perennial. Stems 40-85 cm, sparsely adpressed-hirsute, Lower and median cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 4-10 x 0.4-1.5 cm, base attenuate, margin crenate-serrate, apex acute. Floral leaves linear-lanceolate, 0.9-5.5 x 0.3-0.7 cm, subentire to entire- aristate, base broad and sessile; uppermost as long as or slightly longer than verticillasters. Verticillasters remote below, ± approximate above, 6-8 flowered. Bracteoles lanceolate to linear, 2-6 mm, herbaceous or setaceous, c. 1/2 as long as calyx tube. Calyx sub-bilabiate, tubular to subcampanulate, 12-14 mm, densely hirsute, teeth erect to subpatent, lanceolate-subulate, 6-8 x 0.8-1 mm, with long aristate tips; aristae yellow, 1.5-2 mm, glabrous. Corolla yellow, 14-18 mm, tube exserted. Stamens exserted more than 1/2-way along upper lip. Nutlets obovoid, 2-2.5 mm. Fl. 5-8. Rocky slopes, stony ground , Artemisia meadows, fallow fields, roadside banks, 1350-2160 m.

N. & N.W. Iran, Caucasia, Crimea, N. part of Balkan peninsula, Romania . Euro-Sib. element.