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Dracocephalum ruyschiana - Inflorescences close-up - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescences close-up; Botanical Garden of the J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dracocephalum ruyschiana - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Botanical Garden of the J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dracocephalum ruyschiana - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Botanical Garden of the J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dracocephalum ruyschiana - Leaf insertion - Click to enlarge!

Leaf insertion; Botanical Garden of the J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dracocephalum ruyschiana - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden of the J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 844
Date of entry: 17.06.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Nordic Dragonhead

German: Nordischer Drachenkopf

Mandarin: 青兰 (qing lan)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Lamiales (196)

        Family: Lamiaceae (97)(family description)

          Genus: Dracocephalum (1)

            Epithet: ruyschiana L. (1)

ruyschiana => in honor of Frederik Ruysch, 17th century Dutch anatomist and botanist

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: blue

External links

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