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Genus Galeopsis L.

Род 689 (28). БУДАРИЦА — GALEOPSIS L.¹
L., Sp. PL, ed. 1 (1753) 579; Gen. PL, ed. 5 (1754) 252.

Fam: Labiatae Juss. (Lamiaceae)
Genus: Galeopsis L.
English Name: Hemp-nettle or Hempnettle

Description:

Annual herbaceous plants, most often with highly branched stems. The leaves are broadly ovate, ovate to lance or linear lance. The blossoms are almost seated, gathered 6 to many in densely vertebrae with many flowers, clustered in the upper part of the stem and spaced in in the lower parts. The bracts shorter than the calyx, striking, prickly. The calyx tubular bell-shaped with 10 veins and 5 prickly, almost equal long teeth. The crown is double-sided; the tube is almost as long as the calyx or longer, at the top expanded, inside with a ring of hairs; the upper lip was concave, helmet and jagged; the lower lip 3-part with a backward core portion, at the base with two dull conical, hollow growth. The stamens hidden beneath the upper lip; the outer ones with longer stems; anthers bags grooved and grooves. The nuts are back ovate, smooth, dull, truncated with a flat inner and convex outer wall, rounded at the top.

Table determination of the species

1    Plants with hard, often yellowish, bristle hairs. Stem in the upper part of the bladder inflated ...............................………………………….. 2
1* Plants without hard bristles. Stem in the upper part of the internodes is not swollen …......................................................................……… 3
2 Stems on all sides with dense hairs. The calyx with bristles reaching to the teeth and cutouts ..................................... 4. - G. pubescens Besser
2* Stems without hairs or hairs with only two opposite walls. The tube of the calyx with bristles at least at the edges ........................................... 3
3   Corolla (22-) 27 - 34 mm long, pale yellow, usually with a purple spot on the lower lip ................................................... 3 - G. speciosa Mill.
3* Corolla 15 - 20 (-28) mm long, pink (rarely white or pale yellow) with a dark blot …......................................................................……… 4
4   The corolla with wide, flat and full-sized middle lower lip .................................................................................................... 5. - G. tetrahit L.
4* Crown with narrow, convex, curved and cut middle part of the lower lip ........................................................................ 6. - G. bifida Boenn.
5   The green calyx with broad, translucent, smooth or finely dyed hairs. Leaves broadly ovate to ovate lance ......................... 1. - G. ladanum L.
5* The calyx is whitish, with tight fit, matt, covered with papillary hairs, and sometimes with spread-out hairs. Leaves linear to lance, rarely ovate .................................................................................................................................................................. 2. - G. angustifolia Ebirh. ex Hoffm.

¹ Developed Iv. Assenov.

From „Флора на Н. Р. България”, том IX, БАН, София, (1989)

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Galeopsis, commonly called hemp-nettle or hempnettle,[2] is a genus of annual herbaceous plants native to Europe and Asia. Some species are naturalized in North America and New Zealand.[1][3][4][5]
The plants are poisonous.[6] Several species are widespread weeds[2] and some are used as medicinal herbs.[7][8]

Species

Species include:[1]

Galeopsis × acuminata Rchb. - Germany (G. pubescens × G. tetrahit)

Galeopsis bifida Boenn. – bifid hemp-nettle, split-lip hemp-nettle, splitlip hempnettle, common hemp-nettle, and large-flowered hemp-nettle - widespread across much of Europe and Asia; naturalized in North America

Galeopsis × carinthiaca Porsch ex Fiori - Italy, Czech Republic (G. bifida × G. pubescens)

Galeopsis × haussknechtii Ludw. - Czech Republic (G. ladanum × G. segetum)

Galeopsis ladanum L. - widespread across much of Europe and Asia; naturalized in scattered sites in North America

Galeopsis × ludwigii Hausskn. - Germany, Czech Republic (G. bifida × G. tetrahit)

Galeopsis nana Otsch. - Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)

Galeopsis × polychroma Beck - Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, Baltic Republics (G. pubescens × G. speciosa)

Galeopsis pubescens Besser - southern + central Europe from Britain and France east to Russia

Galeopsis pyrenaica Bartl. - Pyrenees Mountains of Spain + France

Galeopsis reuteri Rchb.f. - Alps of France + Italy

Galeopsis segetum Neck. – downy hemp-nettle - Britain, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Yugoslavia

Galeopsis speciosa Mill. – large-flowered hemp-nettle, Edmonton hempnettle - northern + central Europe, Siberia; naturalized in Canada

Galeopsis tetrahit L. – common hemp-nettle, brittlestem hempnettle - southern + central Europe from Portugal to Russia; naturalized in New Zealand and North America

Galeopsis × wirtgenii F.Ludw. ex Briq. - France, Czech Republic

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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References: „Флора на Н. Р. България”, том IX, БАН, София, (1989), Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Distribution in Bulgaria: (Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora) = conspectus&gs_l= Zlc.
Distribution:

SPECIES:

Galeopsis speciosa Miller - Large-flowered helm-nettle or Edmonton hempnettle

Galeopsis tetrahit L. - Common helm-nettle or Brittlestem helmnettle

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