خزامى مكورة

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Entire, linear to linear-oblong and blunt-tipped, with margins rolled downwards.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Dense, blunt, ovate-oblong spikes on short stalks. Lower bracts greyish; the enlarged sterile bracts form a conspicuous terminal tuft, usually violet-purple, occasionally white or pink. Calyx oval and grey-hairy; corolla violet, its tube extending beyond the calyx.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowering recorded through most of the year.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Saida–Damour, Nahr Aouali, Beirut, Nahr Beirut, Dekouane, Jamhour, Broummana, below Beit Meri, Harissa, Ain Rihaniyeh, Deir el Qamar, Choueifat, Abey, Ghazir, above Jounieh, Antoura, Bikfaya, Ain Zehalta, Rachaya, Qleyya, Sannine and Bekish.

Syrian distribution: Ain Haramiyeh, Qastal Maaf, Bassit, Kessab and Jabal Aqra.

Native range: Algeria, Baleares, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Tunisia, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe.

Introduced into: Canary Is., New Zealand South, Tasmania.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Much-branched subshrub with erect shoots, 20–50 cm tall in Mouterde's regional account.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Lavandula stoechas

الفصيلة

شفوية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

عشبة الدم

Ajuga chamaepitys

Ajuga chamaepitys subsp. tridactylites

Ballota saxatilis subsp. saxatilis

Clinopodium barbatum