Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene

Οικογένεια: Βερβενίδες

Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene συνώνυμο: Lippia nodiflora (L.) Michx.

Trailing perennial with a woody rootstock. Stems 15–60 cm, creeping and rooting at the nodes. Leaves opposite, 8–25 mm, broadly spathulate to obovate-cuneate, coarsely dentate in upper half, green but rather densely covered with short, appressed, medifixed, whitish hairs on both sides. Peduncles axillary, usually exceeding subtending leaf, bearing a dense, shortly cylindrical or ovoid spike 8–20 mm. Calyx small, lobed almost to base, thinly pubescent. Corolla c. 3 mm, white to pale pinkish or mauve, with tube ± equalling the slightly zygomorphic, 4-lobed limb. Fruit of 2 1-seeded nutlets.

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Phyla nodiflora

Phyla nodiflora

Phyla nodiflora