Botanical name:Nepeta glutinosaFamily:Lamiaceae (Mint family) Synonyms: Glechoma glutinosa, Nepeta badamdarica
Sticky Catmint is a distinctive plant easily
recognized by its dense sticky hairs, sawtoothed-deeply-cut leaves and
long flowers. It is a perennial herb, clustered, 40-70 cm or more tall,
densely glandular, aromatic. Stems have scalelike leaves basally,
densely glandular hairy. Leaves are stalkless; leaf blade
heart-shaped-ovate, 1.3-3 × 0.8-2.2 cm, sticky, glandular,
semi-stem-clasping, margin deeply incised-sawtoothed. Flowers are borne
in 4- or 5-flowered whorls, in axils of upper 4-8 pairs of leaves,
densely glandular hairy, widely spaced basally. Flowers are bluish or
purplish, 1.8-2.2 cm; tube slender, much protruding, dilated into limb,
throat inprominent; upper lip 2.5-3 mm, lower lip about 1.5 times as
long as upper lip, middle lobe kidney-shaped, about 2.5 x 4-5
mm.Sepal-cup 0.8-1.2 cm × 2-3 mm, erect, obconical, densely glandular
hairy, throat oblique; teeth ovate-triangular to
lanceshaped-triangular. Flower-stalks are 1-2.5 mm. Sticky Catmint is
found in alpine grasslands at altitudes of 3500-4200 m, in NE
Afghanistan to Xinjiang and W Himalaya. Flowering: July-August.
Identification credit: Christian Bravard
Photographed in Ladakh.
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