Stachys maritima
Stachys maritima
Kum karabaşı
Suffrutescent perennial with basal sterile rosettes. Flowering stems procumbent, simple or branched, 5-35 cm, retrorsely adpressed-pubescent, Basal leaves ovate to ovate-oblong or oblong-elliptic, 0.5-3.5 x 0.4-1.8 cm, apex obtuse, sub cordate to cuneate at base, petiole 0.8-4.5 cm. Cauline leaves ovate-lanceolate to oblanceolate, 0.7-3 x 0.4-1.5 cm, weakly crenate to subentire, shortly petioled to subsessile. Floral leaves subsessile to sessile, oblonglanceolate, gradually becoming smaller than verticillasters. Verticillasters usually approximate for most part, 1-2 remote below, 6-8-flowered. Bracteoles few, setaceous, 1-2.5 mm. Pedicels 1-1.5 mm. Calyx sub-bilabiate, subcampanulate, 8-9 mm, ± gibbous at base in fruit; teeth triangular with soft spinescent tip, 1/3 x tube, densely adpressed-pubescent, Corolla creamy, 13-15 mm, tube subexserted, saccate at base. Nutlets ovoid, 2 x 1.8 mm. Fl. 4-8. Maritime sands, dunes, s.l.-15 m.
S. Europe , Caucasia, Black Sea coast. Medit. element.
