Clinopodium menthifolium subsp. ascendens (Jord.) Govaerts, 1999

Common names

• 🇬🇧 Common Calamint
• 🇫🇷 Calament ascendent

Taxonomy

• Kingdom: Plantae
• Clade: Tracheophytes
• Clade: Angiosperms
• Clade: Eudicots
• Clade: Superasterids
• Clade: Asterids
• Clade: Lamiids
• Order: Lamiales
• Family: Lamiaceae
• Subfamily: Nepetoideae
• Tribe: Mentheae
• Subtribe: Menthinae
• Genus: Clinopodium
• Species: Clinopodium menthifolium subsp. ascendens

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

• Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with C. nepeta (L.) Kuntze, 1891, which has flowers with shorter lower calyx teeth (< 2 mm) and usually entire leaves, while C. menthifolium subsp. ascendens has flowers with longer lower calyx teeth (2 - 2.5 mm) and usually dentate leaves.

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

• C. menthifolium subsp. ascendens (Jord.) Govaerts, 1999, P (hom. syn. C. nepeta subsp. ascendens (Jord.) B.Bock, 2012);
• C. menthifolium subsp. hirtum (Briq.) Govaerts, 1999;
• C. menthifolium subsp. menthifolium (Host) Merino, 1906, P (hom. syn. C. nepeta subsp. sylvaticum (Bromf.) Peruzzi & F.Conti, 2008).

Hybridizes with:

• C. nepeta (L.) Kuntze, 1891 to produce C. × conillii (Sennen) Starm., 2011, P (hom. syn. C. nepeta nothosubsp. conillii (Sennen) B.Bock, 2012);
• C. vulgare L., 1753 to produce C. × cadevallii (Sennen) Starm., 2011, P.

Photographs

Sources

• Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 795). Biotope.