Lamiaceae FAMILY

Nepeta pamirensis

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Nepeta pamirensis is a perennial plant with stems that can become more or less woody, at least near the base, and persist. It can grow 9 - 25cm tall[ 2160 Title Illustrated Flora of Tajikistan and adjacent areas Publication Author Nowak. A. & Nobis M. Editors) Publisher Polish Botanical Society, Warsaw, Poland Year 2020 ISBN 978-83-954123-5-6 Description An excellent book, with one or more good photographs and terse information on 1,864 species of plants from Tajikistan - and it is made available free on a Creative Commons licence. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeCentral Asia - Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan

HabitatScrees, alpine steppes; at elevations from 3,400 - 4,900 metres[ 2160 Title Illustrated Flora of Tajikistan and adjacent areas Publication Author Nowak. A. & Nobis M. Editors) Publisher Polish Botanical Society, Warsaw, Poland Year 2020 ISBN 978-83-954123-5-6 Description An excellent book, with one or more good photographs and terse information on 1,864 species of plants from Tajikistan - and it is made available free on a Creative Commons licence. ]. Alpine belt, mixed grass-sheep's fescue and wormwood-meadow grass steppes, cobresia-sedge meadows, exposed stony and gravelly slopes, moraines, dry pebble-beds[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].