''Sideritis hyssopifolia'', hyssop-leaved mountain ironwort. A 40 cm high shrublet with narrow pointed leaves. The flowers (1 cm) are borne in dense cylindrical clusters from broad spiny-toothed bracts. The calyx also has spiny teeth. Flowers June–August. Its
IUCN Red List Category is least risk.
The Latin word ''hyssopifolia'' (which also occurs in several other plant names, including that of ''
Cuphea hyssopifolia'') means "
hyssop-leaved".
[ James Donn, ''Hortus Cantabrigiensis: or, a Catalogue of Plants, Indigenous and Exotic (1809), p. 5]
Distribution
Mountains of
Southwestern Europe at 1500–1800 m altitude.
Gallery
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References
* The Flowers of Britain and Europe,
Oleg Polunin
Oleg Vladimirovitch Polunin (November 1914 – July 1985) was an English botanist, teacher and traveller. He was one of three sons to the artists Vladimir (born in the Russian Empire) and Elizabeth Polunin. All three sons were interested in the ...
, Oxford Paperbacks,
Oxford University Press
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1987,
External links
* http://encyclopaedia.alpinegardensociety.net/plants/Sideritis/hyssopifolia
* http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10412905.1990.9697848#.UuwUDrQuMjU
* http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-191333
* http://www.tela-botanica.org/bdtfx-nn-63820
* http://bps.conference-services.net/resources/344/3046/pdf/EPHAR2012_0619.pdf
* http://www.kerneliv.dk/da/ovrige/1014-sideritis-hyssopifolia-touch-of-spice-.html
hyssopifolia
Flora of France
Flora of Spain
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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