Micromeria
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Micromeria (small part; small-flowered). Labiatae. Small more or less trailing or decumbent perennial herbs and subshrubs, sometimes planted in borders and rock-gardens. Leaves usually small, entire or toothed: whorls axillary or in terminal spikes; fls. small; calyx tubular and mostly 13-nerved, 5-toothed, somewhat 2-lipped; corolla 2-lipped, upper lip erect, flatfish, entire or notched, lower spreading, 3-lobed; stamens 4, didynamous; style 2-parted at apex: nutlets smooth, ovoid or oblong.—Species 60 or more in northern extra- tropical countries, particularly in the Medit. region. By some authorities, the genus is included in Satureia. Of simple cultural requirements. Prop. by division as well as by seeds.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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