Sideritis montanaL. Mountain Ironwort

Sideritis montanaL. - Mountain Ironwort

Scientific Description:

Annual, (5−)10−40 cm, simple or branched from base, sparsely or densely villous-lanate, greenish. Stem eglandular, hairs spreading, to 2.5−5 mm. Leaves oblong to lanceolate or linear, acute or mucronate, remotely denticulate-serrate near apex or entire, lamina (5−)10−30(−40) × 2−10 mm, lower most shortly petiolate. Verticillasters numerous, distant or somewhat congested, 4−6-flowered; upper bracts often yellow. Calyx actinomorphic, 6−10 mm, teeth all subequal, oblong to ovate, 3−5 mm, with 1−2 mucro. Corolla yellow, turning brownish-black, 5−7 mm.

 

subsp. montana

Plant sparsely to moderately villous-lanate, green, hairs evenly distributed, to 2.5 mm.

 

Flowering time: May−August.

Habitat: Cultivated and fallow fields, steppe, dry slopes, pine (Pinus L.) woods, oak (Quercus L.) scrub, saltpans, s. l−2000 m.

 

Reference:

Huber-Morath A (1982). Sideritis montana L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 183.

Public Description:

Sideritis montana subsp. montana, known as “mountain ironwort”, is distributed in South and Southwest Europe, North Africa, Southwest Asia. It is an annual plant with yellow flowers, and grows up to 40 cm in length. It blooms between May and August and is found in cultivated and fallow fields, steppe, dry slopes, pine (Pinus L.) woods, oak (Quercus L.) scrub and saltpans.

 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/sideritis/montana/, Accessed date: 17.02.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=7650/, Accessed date: 17.02.2016.

Duman H (2012). Sideritis L., 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. 585–588.