Biology:Ballota acetabulosa

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Short description: Species of flowering plants in the sage family Lamiaceae

Ballota acetabulosa
Ballota acetabulosa 1.JPG
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Ballota
Species:
B. acetabulosa
Binomial name
Ballota acetabulosa
(L.) Benth.

Ballota acetabulosa, the Greek horehound, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Southeast Greece, Crete, and West Turkey. It is a compact, evergreen subshrub growing to 0.5 metres (20 in). Upright woolly grey shoots turn to rounded grey-green leaves, bearing whorls of small pink flowers with funnel-shaped green calyces in late summer and autumn. It is tolerant of poor soil and drought, and often used in cultivation as groundcover.[1][2]

References

  1. RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. pp. 1136. ISBN 1405332964. 
  2. "RHS Plant Selector - Ballota acetabulosa". http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=2145. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4851896 entry