Stachys germanica
Stachys germanica
Ssp heldreichii: Boz deliçay
Perennial mesophytic herb, usually with basal sterile rosettes. Flowering stems erect, 25-150 cm, simple or rarely branched above, densely lanate-villous with long eglandular hairs, sometimes mixed with short or long glandular hairs or sessile glands. Cauline leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 5-12 x 2-5.5 cm, obscurely crenate to crenate-dentate, apex acute or sometimes obtuse, cordate at base, densely sericeous- tomentose above, rugose and densely adpressed floccose-white-tomentose beneath, petiole 3-8 cm; floral leaves ovate-lanceolate, subsessile to sessile, as long as or longer than verticillasters. Verticillasters remote or few approximate above, 10-15-flowered. Bracteoles lanceolate to linear, 6-10 mm, herbaceous, tip not spinescent. Pedicels 1-4mm. Calyx sub-bilabiate, subcampanulate, 8-12 mm, densely tomentose; teeth subequal, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 1/3-1/2 x tube, densely eglandular, sometimes mixed with glandular hairs, mucro 0.7-1.5 mm. Corolla rose-pink, 14-16 mm, tube subincluded. Nutlets obovoid, faintly trigonous, 2.5 x 2 mm, slightly winged near base.
1. Flowering stem and calyx with eglandular hairs; calyx teeth triangular-lanceolate, erect in fruit ......subsp. heldreichii
1. Flowering stem and calyx with glandular hairs; calyx teeth ovate-triangular, slightly recurved in fruit ...........subsp. bithynica
