Stachys obliqua
Stachys obliqua
Sarı çayçe
Perennial with basal rosettes of sterile shoots. Flowering stems erect, 20-75 cm, usually simple, patent-lanate-hirsute with glandular and eglandular hairs. Basal leaves oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-10 x 1-3.5 cm, crenate, apex acute, rounded to subcordate at base, rugose, petiole 2-8 cm, floral leaves ovate, 1-9 x 0.8-1.5 cm, subentire to entire, apex acute, sessile, slightly longer than verticillasters. Verticillasters remote, 1-7.5 cm apart, few ±approximate above, 6-10-flowered. Bracteoles linear to lanceolate, 5-10 mm, herbaceous, pilose. Calyx sub-bilabiate, subcampanulate, 10-12 mm; teeth subequal, lanceolate, as long as or slightly less than calyx tube, mucro 0.5-1.2 mm. Corolla pale yellow, c. 15 mm, upper lip c. 6 mm, lower lip c. 8 mm. Nutlets obovoid, 2.5 x 2 mm, smooth. Fl. 5-7. On rocky substratum in Quercus macchie, 125-1190 m.
Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Jugoslavia. E. Medit. element?
