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Origanum cordifolium
About
Origanum cordifolium is a subshrub with suberect, cylindrical, hairless, often purplish shoots, 40–60 cm high. Leaves opposite, simple, entire or irregularly dentate, stalkless, ovoid to cordate, 1–2 x 0.8–2 cm, leathery, hairless, acute. Flowers on pendulous spikes, zygomorphic, corolla bifid, whitish or pinkish, 1–4, subtended by purplish-green, large bracts. Flowers June–August. Fruit of 4 nutlets.
- Family
- Lamiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Origanum cordifolium
- Slug
- origanum-cordifolium
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Origanum
- Species
- cordifolium
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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