Nepeta floccosa Benth.

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Nepeta

Characteristics

Herbs perennial. Stems purplish basally, ca. 35 cm, few branched, erect or ascending, with dense, whitish floccose-tomentose hairs. Basal 3 leaf pairs clustered, long petiolate; upper 2 pairs remote, sessile or short petiolate; leaf blade cordate to triangular-cordate, 1.5-3 × 1.5-3 cm, rigid, thick, corrugate, densely white tomentulose and glandular, margin crenulate. Verticillasters capitate, 6-8-flowered, ca. 1 × 0.7-1 cm; bracts violet, lanceolate, ca. 1/2 as long as calyx, margin with entangled, white villous hairs. Calyx violet, tubular, 8-10 mm, straight but somewhat curved apically, sparsely white tomentose and yellow, scaly glandular, throat very oblique; teeth narrowly triangular, 1.2-1.7 × 0.7 mm, margin ciliate, apex acuminate, teeth of upper lip ca. 1/4 as long as calyx tube, teeth of lower lip ca. 1/3 as long. Corolla blue or bluish, 1.2-1.3 cm, densely puberulent, glandular; tube slender, incurved, exserted beyond calyx, 2-3 mm, throat dilated; lobes of upper lip elliptic, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm, apex obtuse; lower lip ca. 2 × as long as upper lip, middle lobe 2.5 × 3.5-4 mm, base bearded inside, margin crenate. Nutlets dark brown, oblong, ca. 2.5 × 1 mm, glabrous. Fl. Jun-Jul.
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A herb. It forms clumps. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 50 cm tall. The leaves are greyish and have a lemon scent. They are densely covered with white woolly hairs. The leaves are 1-5 cm long. They are rounded to heart shaped and have obscure teeth. The flowers are pink to blue. They are in dense rings. These are woolly and 2 cm across. The flowers are 8 mm long with a slender flower tube.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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JanFebMar
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OctNovDec
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows on stony slopes. It grows between 2,700-4,400 m above sea level.
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

The leaves are powdered and used with curd. They taste like chilli.
Uses medicinal
Edible flowers
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 7 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
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Distribution

Nepeta floccosa world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:452417-1
WFO ID wfo-0000250946
COL ID 46XLV
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Synonyms

Nepeta floccosa

Lower taxons

Nepeta floccosa subsp. floccosa Nepeta floccosa subsp. pseudofloccosa