Stachys citrina
Stachys citrina
Ssp chamaesideritis: Sarkık karabaşı; Ssp citrina: Altın karabaş
Suffrutescent perennial with basal rosettes of sterile shoots. Flowering stems 11-35 cm, usually unbranched, densely adpressed white-tomentose, eglandular, with few sessile glands. Basal leaves elliptic to ovate or oblong, 0.7-5 x 0.5-2 cm, faintly crenulate to subentire, apex obtuse, base attenuate to cuneate, densely or sparsely tomentose; petiole 1.5-3.5 cm. Cauline leaves shortly petiolate, similar to basal, 1.5-3 x 0.5-1.2 cm. Floral leaves sessile, oblong-spathulate to oblong, sometimes ovate, 1-2.5 x 0.5-1 cm, entire, obtuse, cuneate, shorter than verticillasters. Verticillasters 6-8-flowered, ± approximate into a dense head, rarely 1-2 remote below. Bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 7-10 mm, equalling calyx tube. Calyx ± regular, subcampanulate, 11-15 mm ; teeth subequal, erect, c. 1/3 x tube, herbaceous to softly spinescent-tipped. Corolla lemon-yellow, 20-25 mm, tube subexserted. Nutlets obovoid, 1.5-2 x 1 mm. FI. 6-9. Screes and cliffs , 1500-2600 m.
1. Indumentum densely white-tomentose; calyx teeth shortly triangular, 1/4-1/3 x tube subsp. citrina
1. Indumentum sparsely tomentose; calyx teeth triangular-lanceolate, c. 1/2 xtube subsp. chamaesideritis
