Lamium album
Lamium album
Ssp album: Balıcak; Ssp crinitum: Kovanlık
Glabrous to pilose stoloniferous perennial. Stems 17-60 cm or more, erect or ascending, strongly quadrangular, often purplish. Leaves with 10-45 mm petioles, lamina broadly ovate, 10-60 x 10-50 mm, obtuse to acute, cordate to truncate, coarsely crenate to dentate or doubly dentate, pubescent-pilose or ± glabrous, sparingly glandular. Bracts lanceolate to ovate, lower usually acute, upper acuminate. Verticillasters 2-8, 8-10-flowered, distant. Bracteoles 1-7 mm. Calyx 9-15 mm; teeth 4-8.5 mm, subequal to or slightly longer than tube, ciliate-setulose, eglandular or with a few glands near apex. Corolla white, 20-27 mm; tube 6.5-16 mm, straight, with annulus; upper lip 9-18 mm, entire; lower lip 4.5-10 mm. Nutlets 2.8-3.3 x 1.6 mm, dark brown or greyish- brown. Fl. 5-8. Abies forest, Quercus scrub, rocky slopes , streamsides, 990-3100 m.
N.E., Inner & S. Anatolia.
Temperate Eurasia, but rare or absent in the Mediterranean area. Euro-Sib. element.
