Nepeta cataria
Nepeta cataria
Kedinanesi
Perennial; stems erect, 50 cm-1 m, branched above, retrorsely eglandular pilose with short hairs and sessile glands. Leaves ovate, 3.5-8 x 2-5 cm, finely adpressed pilose with many sessile glands, greyish beneath, serrate, cordate or truncate. Petiole 0.7-2.2 cm. Inflorescence widely paniculate; verticillasters ± distant below, condensed above, to c. 35.-flowered. Bracteoles linear-oblong, clearly shorter than calyces. Calyx tubular, 5-6 mm, ± curved, scarcely oblique or not at mouth, ± densely pilose-pubescent and with sessile glands; teeth ± spreading, c. 2 mm. Corolla white with blue-violet spots, 6-7 mm; tube just exceeding calyx teeth. Nutlets broadly ellipsoid, c. 1.5 x 1 mm, dull, matt, obsoletely tuberculate at apex; areole straight. Fl. 7-8. Fallow fields, waste ground, etc., 1200-1500 m.
Throughout most of Europe , S.W.& C. Asia, Himalayas. Introduced in Japan, S. Africa and N. America. Euro-Sib. element.
