Family: Lamiaceae
Plant: Shrub up to 60cm high with white woolly stems.
Flowers: Greenish-yellow or greenish-blue, hairy tubular to 4cm long, irregularly 5-lobed with a style and its stamens visible. Solitary flowers borne in the upper leaf axils.
Flowering: Throughout the year but mainly from July-October.
Fruit: A dry, drupe.
Leaves: Pale green, alternate, linear 3-5cm long and 1-5mm wide with recurved margins and woolly white underneath. The surfaces are densely warty and wrinkled.
Habitat: Dry sclerophyll forest and heathland on sandy soil and near rocky outcrops.
Features: Densely warty and wrinkled linear leaves. Tubular greenish flowers.
Name:
Chloanthes From Greek = grass-flower (referring to its greenish flowers)
stoechadis After Lavendula stoechas, French Lavender, that has similar leaves)
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Green |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Drupe |
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Colour |
- |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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