Stachys bombycina
Stachys bombycina is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae endemic to the SW coastal regions of Turkey. It was first published in 1853.
Description
Stachys bombycina is a woody-based, perennial herb with many moderately long, fairly simple-looking upright woolly stems, growing on calcareous rocks or rocky typically under Pinus brutia woods near the coast, at an altitude of 10–600 m.The stems and leaves are whitened with a dense layer of woolly hair on the surface, persisting at maturity. The leaves are moderately sized, oval, and crenate-serrate toothed. Its flowers are in 1-2 well-separated whorls on the upper parts of the stems. The flowers are pale to moderate purple, with stronger markings, each very short-stalked, with a woolly-covered calyx whose 5 lobes are not strongly spiny-ended, and at maturity these lobes do not recurve out but remain erect or a little spreading.
As an endemic growing in a limited number of wooded areas subject to human deforestation and close beside expanding tourist areas, the conservation status of this species is regarded as VU .
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Similar plants it might be confused with are Stachys aleurites whorls, the upper ones often close together, flowers that are white with pink markings ; Stachys distans ; and S. pseudobombycina, which was synonymised with S. bombycina by Akçiçek ).