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Clinopodium grandiflorum Kuntze

Calament à grandes fleurs (fr), Clinopode à grandes fleurs (fr), Thé de l'Aubrac (fr), Sarriette à grandes fleurs (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Clinopodium

Characteristics

A small herb that keeps growing from year to year. It grows 50 cm high and spreads 50 cm wide. The stem is erect and branching. The leaves are simple and oval. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are pink.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread epizoochory
Mature width (meter) 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.35 - 0.45
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It needs a well drained soil. It does best in an open sunny position. It is drought and frost resistant.
More
Damp woods and scrub, often on limestone. Shady mountain woods.
Light 5-9
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 2-4
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-9

Usage

The leaves have a mint like flavour use as seasoning. They can be used as tea.
Uses medicinal seasoning tea
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

It can be grown from seed or by division.
Mode cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -29
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Clinopodium grandiflorum unspecified picture

Distribution

Clinopodium grandiflorum world distribution map, present in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Algeria, Spain, France, Greece, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Italy, Morocco, Romania, and Turks and Caicos Islands

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:445789-1
WFO ID wfo-0000891748
COL ID W6RV
BDTFX ID 18255
INPN ID 91904
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Acinos grandiflorus Calamintha mairei Calamintha montana Clinopodium grandiflorum Clinopodium grandiflorum Calamintha atlantica Calamintha grandiflora f. glandulosa Calamintha grandiflora f. oblongifolia Satureja grandiflora var. glandulosa Calamintha grandiflora var. glabrata Clinopodium grandiflorum subsp. grandiflorum Melissa grandiflora var. micrantha Calamintha grandiflora var. micrantha Calamintha grandiflora f. rhombifolia

Lower taxons

Clinopodium grandiflorum subsp. baborense
WorldFloraDB 2024