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Lamiaceae FAMILY

Lallemantia royleana

Lallemantia royleana

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitAnnual
Growth—

Requires a light, well-drained soil in a sunny position[1].

Propagation

Seed - sow mid spring in situ[2]. Cite as: Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2026-02-21. <temperate.theferns.info/plant/Lallemantia+royleana>

Pollinators

Bees

References

  1. [1]The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. — Huxley. A. · MacMillan Press · 1992 · ISBN 0-333-47494-5 ↩︎Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed.
  2. [2]RHS Dictionary of Plants plus Supplement. 1956 — F. Chittendon. · Oxford University Press · 1951 · ISBN - ↩︎Comprehensive listing of species and how to grow them. Somewhat outdated, it has been replaced in 1992 by a new dictionary (see [ 200 ]).
  3. [3]Flora of China — Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. · 1994 · http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ ↩︎An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available.
  4. [4]Indian Medicinal Planta — Kirkitar K.R.; Basu B.D. & Indian Civil Service · Sudhindra Nath Basu, BahadurGanj; India · 1918 ↩︎
  5. [5]The Ethnobotany of Southern Balochistan, Pakistan, with Particular Reference to Medicinal Plants — Goodman S.M.; Ghafoor A. · 1992 · ISBN 0015-0746 ↩︎
  6. [6]Indian Medicinal Plants; An Illustrated Dictionary — Khare C.P. (Ed.) · Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg · 2007 · ISBN 978-0-387-70637-5 ↩︎
  7. [7]Nuts & Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention — Preedy V.R., Watson R.R. & Patel V.B. (Editors) · Academic Press · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/C2009-0-01960-6 · ISBN 978-0-12-375688-6 ↩︎