Phlomis herba-venti

Phlomis herba-venti, popularly water winds or fly grass, is a species belonging to the family Lamiaceae. Native to the Mediterranean region and central Asia.

Features

It is a perennial herbaceous plant up to 70 cm tall, with lanceolate or ovate leaves, coriaceous, cordate with a 4-8 cm petiole and a 7-20 x 5-10 cm blade, green. The flowers are purple.

Varieties and Synonymy

subsp. herba-venti. From southern Europe and northern Morocco.

• Phlomis spica-venti K.Koch, Linnaea 21: 699 (1849), orth. var.
• Phlomis ventosa St.-Lag, Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 7: 131 (1880).
• Phlomis coriacea St.-Lag. in Cariot, Étude Fl., ed. 8: 680 (1889).
• Phlomis pungens subsp. laxiflora Velen, Fl. Bulg.: 459 (1891).
• Phlomis herba-venti var. laxiflora (See.) Asenov, in Fl. Nar. Republ. Bulgariya 9: 419 (1989).

subsp. kopetdaghensis (Knorr.) Rech.f., in Fl. Iran. 150:309 (1982). from Turkmenistan to Iran.

• Phlomis kopetdaghensis Knorring, Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.R. 12: 248 (1950).

subsp. lenkoranica (Knorring) Rech.f., in Fl. Iran. 150:309 (1982). From Transcaucasia to southern Turkmenistan.

• Phlomis lenkoranica Knorring, Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.R. 12: 249 (1950).

subsp. pungens (Willd.) Maire ex DeFilipps, Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 64: 233 (1971). Southeast Europe to Iran and northwest Africa.

• Phlomis pungens Willd, Sp. Pl. 3: 121 (1800).
• Phlomitis pungens (Willd.) Rchb. ex T.Nees, Gen. Fl. Germ. 2(7): 43 (1843).
• Phlomis reticulata Raf, Autik. Bot.: 118 (1840).
• Phlomis mesopotamica Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient., II, 4: 47 (1859).
• Phlomis taurica Hartwiss ex Bunge, Labiat. Persic.: 77 (1873).
• Phlomis seticalycina Nabelek, Spisy Prír. Fak. Masarykovy Univ. 70: 69 (1926).
• Phlomis pseudopuogens Knorring in V.L.Komarov, Fl. USSR 21: 647 (1954).

Common name

• Castilian: wind, water, wind, water, wind, water-winding, ballstera, correcaminos, flies, grass of the flies, grass of the wind, matagallo, matulera, mosquero, ventolera, yerba of the wind.