Sideritis montana L.

Mountain ironwort (en), Crapaudine des montagnes (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Sideritis

Characteristics

Herbs annual. Stems ca. 20 cm tall, erect or ascending, spreading hirtellous. Petiole short to almost absent; leaf blade lanceolate to elliptic, 1-2 cm × ca. 5 mm, sparsely pilose, base cuneate, margin entire or remotely serrulate, apex acute. Verticillasters 6-to many flowered; bracts longer than flowers. Calyx 8-10 mm, tube cylindric, villous, l0-veined; teeth equal or subequal, oblong-lanceolate, 3-4 mm, apex spiny, ciliate; fruiting calyx slightly dilated, urceolate-campanulate, distinctly veined. Corolla yellow; tube included; upper lip oblate, ca. 1.5 mm, 2-lobed; lower lip ca. 1 mm. Nutlets gray-brown, triquetrous, ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm, smooth. Fl. and fr. Jun-Aug.
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A herb.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread epizoochory
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Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.3
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

Usage

Uses medicinal poison
Edible leaves
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Cultivation

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Images

Habit

Sideritis montana habit picture by Alix Wilmouth (cc-by-sa)
Sideritis montana habit picture by Emanuele Santarelli (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Sideritis montana leaf picture by Pascal Vassy (cc-by-sa)
Sideritis montana leaf picture by Шамхалов Магомед (cc-by-sa)
Sideritis montana leaf picture by Anouk Reinhard (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Sideritis montana flower picture by christian Ben (cc-by-sa)
Sideritis montana flower picture by Roland Godon (cc-by-sa)
Sideritis montana flower picture by Roland Godon (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Sideritis montana fruit picture by Emanuele Santarelli (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Sideritis montana world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Algeria, Spain, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Pakistan, Palau, Romania, Russian Federation, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Ukraine, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:459012-1
WFO ID wfo-0000310289
COL ID 4X92D
BDTFX ID 75371
INPN ID 123293
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Burgsdorfia montana Hesiodia montana Stachys montana Sideritis montana var. comosa Sideritis montana subsp. ebracteata Sideritis montana var. simplicissima Sideritis montana var. ramosa Sideritis montana var. sericea Sideritis montana subsp. comosa Sideritis montana

Lower taxons

Sideritis montana subsp. montana Sideritis montana subsp. remota (d'urv.)