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Ballota nigra - Branch with flowers - Click to enlarge!

Branch with flowers; Halle, Germany; 9/2009 © Julia Roeser

Ballota nigra - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Halle, Germany; 9/2009 © Julia Roeser

Dataset

Identifier: 1281
Date of entry: 29.04.2010
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Black horehound

German: Schwarznessel

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2653)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2566)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2162)

      Order: Lamiales (195)

        Family: Lamiaceae (96)(family description)

          Genus: Ballota (1)

            Epithet: nigra L. (7)

nigra => black, blackness

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple, violet, white

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