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Nepeta nuda

Hairless catmint

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Common names

Hairless catmint.

Scientific name

Nepeta nuda L.

Conservation status and threats

NOT protected species in Bulgaria.

Description and identification

Nepeta nuda is a perennial herbaceous plant. Stems 50-120 cm high, erect, strongly branched at the top. Leaves sessile or lower shortly petiolate, ovate, oblong-ovate to lanceolate, 2-5 (-8) cm long and 1-3.5 cm broad, margin bluntly toothed, base more or less cordate or truncate, above dark green, glabrous. Blooms June-July¹.

Habitat

Shrubs and on stony places in forest glades and meadows, along roads and fences².

Distribution in Bulgaria

Throughout the country, mainly in the foothills and mountains up to 1800 m altitude³.

General distribution

Southern, Eastern and Central Europe, Southwest Asia, Siberia⁴.

Map of general distribution⁵:

References

1 Асенов, Ив. 1989. Флора на Народна Република България, том IX, издателство на БАН, София.

2 Асенов, Ив. 1989. Флора на Народна Република България, том IX, издателство на БАН, София.

3 Асенов, Ив. 1989. Флора на Народна Република България, том IX, издателство на БАН, София.

4 Nepeta nuda L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science.

5 Nepeta nuda L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science.

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