THE BULGARIAN FLORA ONLINE
THE BULGARIAN FLORA ONLINE
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Tall Skullcap
Scutellaria columnae All.
NOT protected species in Bulgaria.
The stem is 30-80 cm tall, 0.1-0.5 cm wide, erect, branched, woody at the base, in the lower part shortly simple-hairy, layered upwards with short glandular and long silky simple hairs.
The leaves are 0.3-2.5 cm long, with the lower ones on simple hairy petioles, the upper ones on simple and glandular hairy petioles, 1.5-6 cm long, 0.8-4.5 cm wide, ovate, broadly elliptical, sparsely simple hairy on both sides or densely hairy above, grayish layered with simple hairs below, bluntly serrated along the edges, with simple cilia.
The inflorescence is one-sided, racemose, at the top of the stem.
The bracts are on 0.1-0.5 cm long petioles or sessile, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 0.3-0.8 cm wide, elliptical to lanceolate, densely short simple hairy on both sides and singly glandular.
The flower pedicel is 1.5-2.5 mm long, short simple and glandular hairy.
The calyx is 2-3.5 mm long, bilabiate, with equal lobes, the appendage larger than the upper lip, simple and glandular to densely layered with simple and singly glandular hairs.
The corolla is bilabiate, transitioning into a 1-2 cm long, slightly widened upwards, densely simple and glandular hairy, purple or whitish tube; the upper lip is 3-lobed, the middle lobe very large, rounded, slightly notched in the middle, the two lateral lobes small, pointed, the lower lip entire, rounded; both short simple and glandular hairy, purple.
The nutlet is 0.8-1 mm, spherical, with large, crater-like depressions in the middle, warts with groups of short hairs along their edges.
Flowering May-June1.
Shady, grassy and rocky places in forests and scrublands2.
In the whole country; to 1500 meters altitude3.
Map of general distribution (green - native, purple - introduced)4:
1 Пеев, Д. 1989. В: Флора на Народна Република България. Том IX. Издателствно на БАН. София.
2 Пеев, Д. 1989. Пос. източник.
3 Пеев, Д. 1989. Пос. източник.
4 Scutellaria columnae All. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science.
The theory of evolution is a lie!