Stachys woronowii
Stachys woronowii
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Low growing annual. Stems simple or divaricately branched near base, 8-24 cm, patent-pilose. Lower cauline and median leaves broadly obovate to elliptic, 1.5-4.2 x 0.5-1.5 cm, serrate, apex obtuse to broadly acute, base attenuate into 2-10 mm petiole. Floral leaves subsessile to sessile, obovate to oblong, 1.2-2.5 x 0.5-0.8 cm. Vertici1lasters ± congested, spicate, 0.5-2 cm apart, 4-6-flowered. Bracteoles linear to linear-lanceolate, herbaceous, softly spinescent, 6-8 mm, pilose. Pedicels 2-4 mm. Calyx deflexed, bilabiate, subcampanulate, 9-12 mm, base gibbous, tube strongly nerved, sparsely pilose near base; teeth unequal, erect, oblong-mucronate, upper and lower teeth 3.5-4 and 5-5.5 mm respectively; mucro 1-1.5 mm. Corolla pink, 10-12 mm, included. Stamens little exserted from corolla tube. Nutlets obovoid, 1.5 x 1.2 mm, rugose. Fl. 5-6. Rocky limestone ridges, slopes or ravines, sometimes in Juniperus scrub, 200-1600 m.
Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, N.W. Iran, Transcaucasia. Ir.-Tur. element.
