Ballota acetabulosa

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

Ballota acetabulosa, the false dittany[1] or 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.[2][3]

References

  1. "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  2. RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
  3. "RHS Plant Selector - Ballota acetabulosa". Retrieved 11 June 2013.
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