Family |
Lamiaceae
Sideritis pullulans
Vent.
Leb. Syr. Pal. Jor.
Sideritis pullulans Vent.
First published in Descr. Pl. Nouv.: t. 98 (1803).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, p. 126, Pl. LVII, 1; 1983)
Description
Life-form & habit: Grey-green perennial subshrub with stout, erect, much-branched stems, 30–100 cm tall. Woolly near the base and sticky-hairy above.
Leaves: Rigid, oblong-lanceolate, strongly net-veined and round-toothed, ending in a small spine.
Inflorescence & flowers: Numerous flower whorls, spaced below and closer together above. Floral bracts are membranous, conspicuously veined, hair-fringed and wider than long, narrowing abruptly into a spreading point and exceeding the flowers. The green, finely hairy calyx has rigid, lanceolate, fringed teeth; the corolla scarcely projects.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: Flowering June–July.
Habitat & elevation: Disturbed ground and roadsides.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Saida, Beirut, Hadeth, Nahr Beirut, Nahr el Kalb, Qalmoun, Tripoli, Souq el Gharb, Deir el Qamar, Amchit, Balhas, Broummana, above Chekka, Baino, Qalaat ech Chekif, the Litani valley below Beaufort, Jisr el Khardali and Kornet Chehwan.
Syrian distribution: Latakia, between Safita and Tartous, Ain Haramiyeh, Slenfe and Banias.
Native range: Lebanon-Syria, Palestine.