Stachys macrantha
Stachys macrantha
Koca soğulcan
Flowering stems erect, usually unbranched, 10-60 cm, sparsely to densely hirsute, with 1-2 pairs of leaves. Basal leaves broadly ovate-triangular, lamina 2-15 x 1.5-10 cm, distinctly crenate, obtuse, cordate, petiole 3-30 cm; cauline smaller with shorter petioles. Floral leaves subsessile to sessile, similar to cauline leaves, lowest pair longer and the rest shorter than verticillasters. Verticillasters ± approximate above, 1-2 remote below, c. 2-5 cm distant, 10-15-flowered. Bracteoles lanceolate, 4-15 mm, herbaceous with spinescent tip. Calyx 11-17 mm; teeth ± equal, triangular-subulate, 1/2 x calyx tube, spinescent tipped. Corolla purplish-pink, 30-35 mm. Nutlets 3.5-4 x 2.5-3 mm. Fl. 6-9. Lush meadows, rocky slopes, edge of Pinus forest mixed with Fagus scrub, 1600-3300 m.
N.W. Iran, Caucasia. Euxine element?
