بطنج ثلجي

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Subsessile, entire; venation strongly raised beneath. Lower leaves attenuate at base; floral leaves lanceolate, somewhat acute, exceeding the flowers.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Pseudo-verticils numerous, with 4–6 flowers, either subdistant or close-set into long spikes. Bracts absent or very short. Calyx white, tubular-campanulate; teeth triangular-lanceolate, muticous, three times shorter than the tube. Corolla white, 10–12 mm, pubescent, tube included.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Nutlets not described in detail by Mouterde.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers April–August.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr.

Lebanese distribution: Yammouné, Zahlé, Deir el-Ahmar, Baalbeck, ‘Aïn Bourdai, Baalbeck–Ras Baalbeck, Yanta, Rachaya, Ouadi el-Harir.

Syrian distribution: Bloudane, Talaat Moussa, Ma‘loula–Saïdnaya, Qastal, Jabal Qasyoun, Doummar, Ouadi Barada, Mayssaloun, Sahl-es-Sahra, environs of Damascus.

Native range: Endemic to the Levant (Lebanon and western Syria).

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Suffruticose at the base, 30–40 cm tall, entirely covered with a dense white-woolly indumentum.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Stachys nivea

الفصيلة

شفوية

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عشبة الدم

Ajuga chamaepitys

Ajuga chamaepitys subsp. tridactylites

Ballota saxatilis subsp. saxatilis

Clinopodium barbatum