Lamiaceae

S. iberica Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 2:51 (1808).
Suffrutescent perennial, 20-60 cm, erect or procumbent, densely or sparsely adpressed-pilose. Lower and median cauline leaves subsessile to sessile, linear-oblong to oblanceolate, 1.5-5.5 x 0.4-1.2 cm, margin crenate to faintly crenate-serrate, rarely entire, base attenuate. Floral leaves subsessile to sessile, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, gradually becoming ovate-lanceolate above,uppermost as long as or shorter than verticillasters, apex subacute, rarely softly spinescent. Verticillasters remote below, few ± approximate above, 1-5 cm distant, (2-)4-8-flowered. Bracteoles few, small, setaceous, 1-3 mm. Pedicels short, 0.5-1 mm, not conspicuously elongating in fruit. Calyx sub-bilabiate, subcampanulate to tubular, 5-10 mm, sparsely or densely pilose; teeth subequal, erect to subrecurved, triangular-lanceolate, c. 1/2 x tube, mucronate at tip, mucro 0.2-1 mm. Corolla purplish-pink to creamy white with pink markings, 14-18 mm, tube subexserted. Stamens slightly exserted from corolla tube. Nutlets obovoid, 2.2.x 1.8 mm, trigonal with faint basal margins. Fl. 5-8. Sloping limestone or serpentine rocks and screes, streams and riversides, steppes and igneous banks, 800-2400 m.
1. Corolla creamy yellow to white with pink markings; flowering stems usually erect, rarely ascendent; calyx teeth usually c. 1/2 x tube or less, aristae 0.2-1 mm subsp. stenostachya
1. Corolla mauve to pink; flowering stems usually ascending, rarely erect; calyx teeth as long as or slightly less than tube, aristae 0.5-2 mm
2. Plant ± erect, slender and elongate, c. (24-)38-65 cm, paler green; median cauline leaves lanceolate with acute apex subsp. georgica
2. Plant ascending, stout and dwarfish, c. 13-35(-45) cm, darker green; median cauline leaves oblaneolate with obtuse apex subsp. iberica
3. Median cauline leaves usually distinctly crenate to crenate-dentate, leaves and stems sparsely hairy; corolla dark mauve to purple
var. iberica
3. Median cauline leaves usually entire to subentire; leaves and stems densely hairy; corolla palepink var. densipilosa
subsp. georgica Rech. fil. in Feddes Rep. 53:84 (1944). Map 38. Rocky igneous slopes, edge of meadows, 1400-2300 m.
Type: [Georgia] [in pratis montosis] Georgia caucasica, [vii 1835], Hohenacker (iso. K! W).
Mainly E. Anatolia. A9 Kars: Yalnizçam Da. above Yalnizçam, 2100-2300 m, D. 32511! B8 Muş: Çaylar, 1600 m, D. 46365! Bingöl: 11 km W. of Solhan, 1200 m, Buttler 15971(0. B9 Ağri: Karaköse (Ağri) to Erzurum, 2300 m, Birand & Karamanoğlu 536/a! Bitlis: Bitlis to Tatvan, 1730 m, D.. 22341! C9 Hakkari: Morinos De. above Marunis, 1900 m, D. 45374!
Transcaucasia, N,W. Iran, N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element.