Lamiaceae FAMILY

Lallemantia iberica

Edibility

3/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Lallemantia iberica is a much-branched, annual to biennial plant growing around 30 - 100cm tall[ 1894 Title Vegetable Fats and Oils Publication Author Krist S. (Translated by Barbara Bauer) Website https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30314-3 Publisher Springer Nature; Switzerland Year 2020 ISBN 978-3-030-30314-3 Description ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine. It is cultivated as an oil plant, some named varieties have been developed for food and for industry[ 1894 Title Vegetable Fats and Oils Publication Author Krist S. (Translated by Barbara Bauer) Website https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30314-3 Publisher Springer Nature; Switzerland Year 2020 ISBN 978-3-030-30314-3 Description ]. The plant is also sometimes grown as an ornamental[ 50 Title Flora Europaea Publication Author ? Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1964 ISBN - Description An immense work in 6 volumes (including the index). The standard reference flora for Europe, it is very terse though and with very little extra information. Not for the casual reader. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeW. Asia - Turkey, the Caucasus, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Turkmenistan

HabitatRoadsides, slopes and fallow fields, also as a weed of cultivation; at elevations up to 2,150 metres[ 93 Title Flora of Turkey. Publication Author Davis. P. H. Publisher Edinburgh University Press Year 1965 ISBN - Description Not for the casual reader, this is an immense work in many volumes. Some details of plant uses and habitats. ]. Dry gravelly slopes, gravelly terraces with tragacanth and juniper, stony taluses; ascending in mountains to 1,700 metres[ 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. ].