Stachys lavandulifolia
Stachys lavandulifolia
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Suffrutescent perennial with basal rosettes of sterile shoots. Flowering stems numerous, 10-30 cm, sparsely to densely pilose, sometimes absent, rarely white-tornentose with unequal stellate hairs. Basal leaves subsessile to sessile, oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate, 2-6 x 0.4-1.5 cm, entire to faintly serrate, attenuate at base, cauline similar. Floral leaves oblong to ovate, 1.2-2 x 0.25-0.8 cm, shorter than verticillasters. Verticillasters usually remote, 4-6-flowered. Bracteoles few, linear, 2-3 mm, hirsute. Pedicels 1.5-2 mm. Calyx ± regular, subcampanulate, patently pilose, tip softly spinescent. Corolla purple to mauve, 13-15 mm, tube subincluded. Nutlets obovoid, 2.5-3 x 2-2.5 mm. Fl. 5-8. Limestone to igneous rocky slopes and screes, 1000-3660 m.
1. Calyx teeth 1-1.2 x as long as tube; leaves shortly whitish-tomentose, cauline oblanceolate with ± obtuse apex ........................var. brachyodon
1. Calyx teeth 2-3.8 x as long as tube; leaves sericeous-tomentose or glabrous, cauline lanceolate with acute apex
2. Leaves and stems ± glabrescent with few subsessile to sessile glands var. glabrescens
2. Leaves and stems serieeous-tomentose with glandular hairs var. lavandulifolia
