Synonyms
Melissa nepeta L.; Calamintha nepeta (L.) Savi; Thymus nepeta (L.) Sm.; Satureja nepeta (L.) Scheele; Calamintha nepetoides Jord.; Calamintha officinalis var. nepeta (L.) Rchb. & Rchb. f.; Satureja calamintha subsp. nepeta (L.) Briq.; Satureja calamintha var. nepeta (L.) Briq.; Calamintha largiflora Klokov
Local Names
Azerbaijan: Pişiкnаnəsivаri ətirnаz; English: Goose foot.
Botany and Ecology
Perennial, white-villous. Rhizome creeping. Stems 20–60 cm high, obtusely 4-angled, sparingly branched, procumbent or with elongated ascending branches, sparsely hairy. Leaves with short petioles or subsessile, rounded-ovate, distantly and shallowly crenate-serrate or subentire, densely short hairy, canescent above, prominently veined below. Inflorescence a terminal spike consisting of several loose whorls of clusters of flowers growing in the axils of the leaves (verticillasters); verticillasters 12–15(30) flowered, dichotomously branched, emerging on a common peduncle from the leaf...
References
Akhundov QF, Mahammadli BR, Asadov KS. Useful wild-growing plants. Maarif: Baku; 1989. (in Azeri).
Grossheim AA. Plant resources of the Caucasus. Baku: Publishing house of AS of Azerbaijani SSR; 1946. (in Russian).
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Mehdiyeva, N., Alizade, V., Paniagua Zambrana, N.Y., Bussmann, R.W. (2016). Clinopodium nepeta (L.) Kuntze Lamiaceae. In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50009-6_40-1
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