Lallemantia

Plant Characteristics
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Scientific Names

Read about Lallemantia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Lallemantia (J. L. E. Ave Lallemant, botanist of St. Petersburg). Labiatae. Annual or biennial herbs, of ornamental value for the flower-garden. From Dracocephalum the genus differs in the character of the upper lip, in which the lateral lobes are on the face of the middle lobe: glabrous or canescent: lvs. opposite, dentate, the upper ones passing into narrow sessile floral bracts: fls. small, blue; calyx tubular, 15-nerved, straight, 5-toothed; corolla-tube slender, included in calyx or somewhat exserted, the throat widening; corolla-limb 2- lipped; stamens 4, didynamous; style 2-lobed: nutlets ovoid.—Species 4, Asia. L. canescens, Fisch. & Mey. (Dracocephalum canescens, Linn.), is annual or biennial, 18 in.: lvs. narrow, long-petioled, the floral lvs. sessile: fls. blue, in whorls, with oblong ciliate bracts; corolla-tube exceeding calyx. Asia Minor, Persia. Variable; one form (var. albida, Voss) being white. July, Aug. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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