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Mountain Ironwort

Sideritis montana L.

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A toxic weed.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 17: 105 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Description

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Herbs annual. Stems ca. 20 cm tall, erect or ascending, spreading hirtellous. Petiole short to almost absent; leaf blade lanceolate to elliptic, 1-2 cm × ca. 5 mm, sparsely pilose, base cuneate, margin entire or remotely serrulate, apex acute. Verticillasters 6- to many flowered; bracts longer than flowers. Calyx 8-10 mm, tube cylindric, villous, l0-veined; teeth equal or subequal, oblong-lanceolate, 3-4 mm, apex spiny, ciliate; fruiting calyx slightly dilated, urceolate-campanulate, distinctly veined. Corolla yellow; tube included; upper lip oblate, ca. 1.5 mm, 2-lobed; lower lip ca. 1 mm. Nutlets gray-brown, triquetrous, ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm, smooth. Fl. and fr. Jun-Aug.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 17: 105 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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eFloras.org
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Habitat & Distribution

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Valleys, thickets. Xinjiang [Russia, Turkmenistan; SW Asia, Europe].
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 17: 105 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
project
eFloras.org
original
visit source
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eFloras