Scutellaria albida L. Akkaside (in Turkish)

Scutellaria albida L. - Akkaside (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Erect usually robust plants (15−)20−35(−40) cm tall, stems usually branched, densely clothed with antrorsely adpressed hairs, eglandular below inflorescence. Leaves 20−30 × 15−20 mm, triangular-ovate, cordate, coarsely crenate, obtuse, adpressed-puberulous. Inflorescence branched, axis densely patent glandular - and eglandular - hairy and densely puberulous. Bracts 9−20 mm, short- to long-petioled, lamina acute or acuminate to rounded, elliptic. Corolla white, cream, or dingy mauve, 12−19 mm, lower lip usually streaked with violet or purple.

 

subsp. albida

Corolla 12−15(−16) mm; stems often branched from base at least to middle. Flowers white or cream; bracts long-petioled, with rounded or acuminate apices.

 

Flowering time: May−July.

Habitat: Clearings in beech (Fagus L.), yellow pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and black pine (Pinus nigra J.F.Arnold) forest, oak (Quercus L.) macchie, nr s.l.−1700 m.

 

Reference:

Edmondson JR (1982). Scutellaria albida L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 82.

Public Description:

Scutellaria albida subsp. albida, commonly known as “akkaside” in Turkish, is native to Türkiye and Georgia. It is a robust plant with white, cream, or dingy mauve flowers, and grows up 40 cm in length. It blooms between May and July and is found in clearings in beech, yellow pine, black pine forest, oak macchie.

 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2018). https://turkiyebitkileri.com/tr/foto%C4%9Fraf-galerisi/view-album/4032.html, Accessed date: 06.02.2018.

Çiçek M (2012).Scutellaria, In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 582-585.