Lallemantia canescens
Lallemantia canescens
Topajdarbaşı
Perennial, ± greyish-canescent with very fine hairs, usually with numerous ascending to erect stems arising from a branched woody base, 20-50 cm tall. Lower leaves oblong-elliptic, 20-60 x 7-12 mm, long-petiolate, lamina crenate-dentate to subpinnatifid; upper leaves linear-lanceolate, to 80 x 8 mm, shortly petiolate to sessile. Bracteoles 8-11 x 2.5-3.5 mm , ciliate-dentate. Calyx ± cylindrical, divided to 1/4, upper tooth ovate, lateral triangular; lower teeth lanceolate. Corolla violet, dark violet-blue, blue-purple, lilac or lavender-blue, 28-40 mm, tube distinctly exserted from calyx. Fl. 6-8. Fallow fields, hillsides, roadside banks, rocky igneous and limestone slopes & scree, 1300-3200 m.
E. Anatolia.
Transcaucasia, Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.
