Larger Labiates

Dead-nettle Family - Lamiaceae

Chaste-tree Vitex agnus-castus

Native to the Mediterranean region and Middle East. Typically found along seasonally wet water courses, but also planted in and around gardens.


Flowers	Flowers	Leaves	Leaf

Seed capsules	Seed capsules	Bark	Winter buds

French Lavender Lavandula stoechas

Native to the Mediterranean region. A common component of frigana and subshrub plant communities.


Habit	Habit	Flower spike	Flower spike

Flowers	Leaves	Leaves	Leaf

Common Rosemary Salvia rosmarinus

(Rosmarinus officinalis) Native throughout the Mediterranean Region and also popular as a garden plant and culinary herb. A highly aromatic, evergreen shrub with linear leaves that have inrolled margins. Flowers are light blue or rarely pinkish, or almost white with bluish spots. The flowers have prominent, very long, arched stamens.


Habit	Flowers	Flowers	Leaves

Shrubby Sage Salvia fruticosa

(Salvia triloba) Native to the central and eastern Mediterranean region. A common component of frigana and shrubby plant communities.


Habit	Habit	Flower spike	Flower

Flower	Leaves	Leaf	Leaf

Wild Clary Salvia verbenaca

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region, Middle East and western Atlantic Europe. Frequent in grassy places.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Flower	Leaf	Leaf

Annual Clary Salvia viridis

Native to the Mediterranean region, eastward to West Asia. Frequent in open and lightly disturbed ground.


Habit	Flower spike	Flower spike

Flowers	Flower	Leaf

Small-spined Woundwort Stachys spinulosa

Native to the Adriatic and Aegean regions. Quite frequent in stony areas, especially near the coast.


Flower spike	Upper flower spike	Lower flower spike	Flower

Flower and calyx	Leaves	Leaf	Stem bristles and hairs

Stachys canescens

Native and endemic to the southern Peloponnese. Local on cliffs and rocky slopes, sometimes walls.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flower

Flower and calyx	Calyx	Leaf	Leaf

Hairy Woundwort Stachys ocymastrum

Native to the western and central Mediterranean and scarce into the eastern part of the region.


Flower spike	Flowers	Flowers	Flower

Calyx	Leaf	Stem

Shrubby Woundwort Prasium majus

Native to the Mediterranean region. Frequent in shrubby, low maquis and frigana habitats.


Habit	Flowers	Flowers	Flower and calyx

Leaves	Leaf	Leaf	Stem

Spreitzenhofer's Woundwort Stachys spreitzenhoferi

Native and endemic to South-east Peloponnese. The subspecies virella is endemic to Monemvasia and the nearby coastal cliffs.


Habit	Habit	Leaves	Leaf

Pink Peloponnese Woundwort Stachys candida

Native and endemic to the Taygetos range, Peloponnese.


Habit	Habit

Leaves	Leaves	Leaves

Jerusalem Sage Phlomis fruticosa

Native to the central and eastern Mediterranean, eastward to the Caucasus. Common in low maquis and frigana.


Habit	Flowers	Leaves	Seedheads

Greek Horehound Pseudodictamnus acetabulosus

Native to Greece and Turkey. Common in low maquis and frigana.


Habit	Flowers	Flower	Leaves

Rock Skullcap Scutellaria rupestris

Native to Albania and Greece. Frequent in low maquis and frigana.


Flowers	Flowers	Flower

Leaves	Leaf	Seed capsules

Bifid Dead-nettle Lamium bifidum

Native to the mediterranean Region and the Balkans.


Habit	Flowers	Flowers	Leaves

Henbit Dead-nettle Lamium amplexicaule

Native throughout Europe, North Africa and most of northern Asia. Common in disturbed and cultivated ground.


Habit	Flowers	Flowers	Leaves

Musk Dead-nettle Lamium moschatum

Native to the eastern mediterranean Region. Occasional in grassy places.


Habit	Flower	Leaves

Flower bracts	Leaves

Gypsywort Lycopus europaeus

Native throughout most of Eurasia and the Mediterranean Region. A tall, upright plant of watery places, often forming dense tangles of stems by the end of the season. Easily recognised by its deeply-toothed leaves and tight whorls of tiny, white flowers.


Habit	Flowers	Leaves	Leaf

Water Mint Mentha aquatica

Widespread throughout Europe and parts of Asian Russia and Africa. A strongly aromatic species with a rich, minty smell. Flowers in tight clusters in the upper leaf axils towards the top of the plant, with a rounded cluster topping the main stem. The calyx teeth are long, narrow and sharply pointed.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Calyxes	Leaf

Round-leaved Mint Mentha suaveolens

A rare native in SW England but only a casual escape from cultivation in East Anglia. Flowers August to September. A spreading plant with rounded leaves and a rather sickly-sweet aroma. Flowers white in long, usually branched, terminal spikes. The teeth on the leaf edges are strongly down-turned, giving the leaves the appearance of having rounded lobes along the margins when viewed from above.


Habit	Flowers	Leaves	Leaf

Flora of Peloponnese An Identification Guide

Larger Labiates

Dead-nettle Family - Lamiaceae

Species List

Flora of Peloponnese
An Identification Guide