Stachys amanica

Stachys amanica

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Suffrutescent perennial with sterile basal rosettes. Flowering stems short, c. 5-10 cm, shortly and sparsely adpressed-pilose intermixed with subsessile glands and/or glandular hairs. Basal leaves oblong, 2-2.5 x 1-1.5 cm, obscurely crenate, slightly subcordate at base; petiole 2-4 cm. Cauline and floral leaves subsessile to sessile, ± similar to basal leaves but gradually becoming shorter. Verticillasters 2-3, remote, 5-7-flowered. Bracteoles small, few, setaceous or herbaceous, linear to oblanceolate, 1.5-3 mm. Pedicels 1-2.5 mm. Calyx subbilabiate, campanulate, 5-6.5 mm, sparsely pilose to ± glabrescent; teeth bluntly triangular to triangular-lanceolate, 1/5-1/4 x calyx tube. Corolla creamy-yellow, 11-12 mm, tube subexserted. Nutlets obovoid, 0.7 x 0;5 mm. Fl. 4-7. Cliffs and crevices of limestone and metamorphic rocks, 200-2135 m.
Endemic. E. Medit. element.