Mint Family
Stachys aleurites(Dağ çayı, Pişik otu)
(Ziest)
Labiatae (Lamiaceae)
Suffrutescent perennial herbs. Stem erect, simple, thinly arachnoid canescent, sometimes glabrescent below, up to 60 cm. Leaves! opposite, ovate to ovate-lanceolate; lower cauline leaves 1,5 x 1-2,5 cm, crenate-serrate, base subcordate to truncate and petiolate but median and upper cauline leaves shorter and sessile to subsessile. Floral leaves as long as or slightly longer than verticillasters. Verticillasters up to 12-flowered. Bracteoles lanceolate, as long as calyx tube. Calyx sub-bilabiate, tubular to subcampanulate, up to 13,5 mm; teeth aslong as tube. Petals united, purple, up to 15 mm. Nutlets obovoid, up to 2,5 mm. Fl. April-July. Calcareous rocks near the coast.
Endemic for Antalya.
