Clinopodium vulgare, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 167

1. C. vulgare L. , Sp. Pl. 587 (1753)

( Calamintha clinopodium Bentham , C. vulgaris (L.) Halâcsy , non Clairv., Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch ).

Pubescent to densely villous perennial herb 30-80 cm. Leaves 20-65 x 10-30 mm, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, subobtuse, rounded or cuneate at base, shallowly and remotely crenate-serrate, petiolate. Verticillasters distant or sometimes the upper crowded; bracts linear, almost as long as the calyx, plumose. Corolla 12-22 mm, pinkish-purple. Scrub and open woodland. M ost o f Europe, northwards to c. 66° N. in Norway. All except BI Fa Is Sb.