(modifié de Coste, Flore de la France 1937) :
[Sous-espèces en rouge] Plante vivace de 30-80 cm, glabre, à souche grosse émettant plusieurs tiges cylindracées-anguleuses [dressée ou ascendente]
Écologie : (répartition d'après la flore) Éboulis, alluvions des rivières
Répartition hors de France : méridionale et centrale; Asie Mineure; Afrique septentrionale.
(various sources, as not in Butcher)
NOTE: the French text is more complete and up-to-date
Plant biennial or perennial 20-60 cm, glabrous, large base giving rise to several cylindrical-angular stems [upright or prostrate, in loose tufts, becoming rapidly woody at the base]
Ecology UK: Not native to the UK - France: Dry and stony places, especially limestone mountainous areas: Jura, Burgundy, Alps. Auvergne, Cevennes, Pyrenees.
Distribution outside France: Central.
Fleurs : d'un brun rougeâtre, petites, en panicule pyramidale rameuse et multiflore; pédicelles à peine aussi longs que le calice, munis de glandes subsessiles; calice à lobes suborbiculaires, scarieux au bord; 3-9 fleurs, corolle à lèvre dépassant généralement la demi-longueur du tube
Floraison France : Mai-juillet
Flowers: reddish brownheads mostly with 3-9 flowers,, fairly small, bare pyramidal panicle; pedicels as long as or a little shorter than the calyx, with glandular hairs; calyx lobes suborbicular, scarious at the edge; corolla 4-6 mm, upper lip longer than half of the tube; staminode lanceolate-acute or absent; protruding stamens; capsule 3-5 mm, subglobose-apiculate
Flowering UK: (none) - France: May-July.
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