Ballota acetabulosa
| Ballota acetabulosa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Genus: | Ballota |
| Species: | B. acetabulosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Ballota acetabulosa (L.) Benth.
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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[]
- ^ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
- ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Ballota acetabulosa". Retrieved 11 June 2013.
Categories:
- Ballota
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
- Flora of Greece
- Flora of Crete
- Flora of Turkey