Satureia

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 Satureia subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Satureia (the old Latin name used by Pliny), also spelled Satureja. Syn., Calamintha. Labiatae. Savory. Hardy aromatic herbs and subshrubs, grown in borders for their flowers and also as pot-herbs.

Leaves entire, narrow and small or toothed, or broad and larger: floral whorls either axillary or in terminal spike-like racemes; calyx campanulate-tubular or tubular, rarely campanulate, 10-13- rarely 15-nerved, 5-toothed, sometimes 2-lipped; corolla-tube short or long, exserted, upper lip flat, entire or emarginate, lower lip expanded, 3-cleft, with flat lobes, the midlobe usually larger and emarginate; stamens 4: nutlets ovoid, smooth.—About 160 species in the warmer regions of both hemispheres.

S. grandiflora, Scheele (S. grandiflora, Moench.) Herbaceous perennial: lvs. ovate, serrated: sts. decumbent, branching from the base: fls. in axillary whorls, quite large, 1 1/2 in. long, with a straight tube; upper lip flattened, purple. June, July. CH


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