Marrubium vulgare
Marrubium vulgare
Karaderme
Erect, little-branched perennial. Stems 20-60 cm, densely pilose, whitish below, greyish above. Leaves petiolate, ovate to orbicular, coarsely doubly crenate, covered with stellate hairs on both surfaces, whitish or greyish beneath, dark greyish-green above. Verticillasters several-flowered; bracteoles as long as or longer than calyx tube. Calyx tube 3.5-4.5 mm, densely stellate-pilose; teeth 10, spreading, hamate or circinate, ± equal, 1.5-2 mm, stellate-pilose for 1/2-2/3 of their length. Corolla white or cream, densely stellate-pilose outside, ± glabrous within the upper lip. Nutlets greyish-brown, c. 2 mm. Fl. 4-8. Roadsides, chalk banks, steppe, eroded hills, etc., s.l.-1400 m.
Eurasia, N. Africa; introduced in America.
