Hyssopus L.

Hyssopus (en), Hysope (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae

Characteristics

Plants perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves mostly linear to oblong, margin entire, involute, or flat. Verticillasters 2-to many flowered, mostly secund, axillary, often in long terminal spikes, lower ones lax, upper crowded; floral leaves similar to stem leaves, reduced; bracts and bracteoles minute. Pedicel distinct. Calyx tubular to subcampanulate, brightly colored, conspicuously 15-veined, hairy, glandular, teeth 5, equal, sinuses with a thickening at junction of 2 side veins. Corolla blue, purple, or occasionally white, hairy outside, glandular, glabrous inside, tube nearly included or conspicuously exserted, limb 2-lipped; upper lip emarginate or 2-lobed, sometimes subentire; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed; middle lobe longer than lateral lobes, truncate to emarginate. Stamens 4, mostly exserted, anterior 2 longer; filaments glabrous; anthers ovoid, cells 2, divaricate. Style apex equally 2-cleft. Nutlets oblong to oblong-ovoid, hairy, glandular, or glabrous.
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Cal 15-nerved, regular, not hairy in the throat, the lobes triangular, cuspidate; cor strongly 2-lipped, the upper lip small, obovate, shallowly 2-lobed, the lower lip much larger, its lateral lobes bent upward, the terminal lobe broadly dilated; stamens 4, straight, somewhat divergent, exsert, the lower pair slightly the longer; nutlets ovoid, smooth. 15, s. Eur. and Medit. reg. to c. Asia.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Germination duration (days) 14 - 42
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
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Images

Hyssopus unspecified picture

Distribution

Hyssopus world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Belarus, Switzerland, China, Czech Republic, Algeria, Spain, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Montenegro, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Turks and Caicos Islands, Ukraine, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30022219-2
WFO ID wfo-4000018903
COL ID 8VYGJ
BDTFX ID 86595
INPN ID 193549
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Hyssopus

Lower taxons

Hyssopus latilabiatus Hyssopus seravschanicus Hyssopus subulifolius Hyssopus ambiguus Hyssopus cuspidatus Hyssopus macranthus Hyssopus officinalis