Ballota saxatilis
Ballota saxatilis
Ssp brachyodonta: Karıncasomurcağı; Ssp saxatilis: Nemnemotu
Stems ascending or erect, shortly villous with fasciculate hairs to 1 mm, or very shortly stellate-haired. Cauline leaves ovate-orbicular, or more narrowly ovate, 15-36 x 8-30 mm, base slightly cordate to truncate, crenate-dentate, stellate-haired and prominently veined beneath. Bracteoles narrowly linear, 24 mm. Verticillasters densely 6-10-flowered. Calyx 6-10 mm, tubular, narrowly and shortly infundibular above, limb sometimes oblique; teeth 10, divergent, narrowly triangular, with 0-0.4 mm mucro. Corolla pink or purple , 10-16 mm. Fl. 6-8.
1. Cauline leaves ovate-orbicular, 15-35 x 15-30 mm, lower surface with dense stellate hairs to 1 mm; stems pubescent with fasciculate and simple hairs to 0.5-1 mm; calyx 8-10 mm, teeth with 0.2-0.4 mm mucro .....subsp. saxatilis
1. Cauline leaves ovate, 15-20 x 8-12 mm, lower surface more densely and shortly stellate-haired; stems very shortly stellate-haired : calyx 6-8 mm, teeth with 0-0.2 mm mucro; plant more slender than in subsp, saxatilis .........subsp. brachyodonta
A more virgate, slender plant than subsp, saxatilis and largely replacing it in the middle of the latter's Anatolian area.
