Nepeta hederacea

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 Nepeta hederacea subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Nepeta hederacea, Trev. (N. Glechoma, Benth. Glecoma hederacea, Linn.). Ground Ivy. Gill-over-the-Ground. Field Balm. Fig. 2468. Perennial, hairy: creeping sts. leafy, making a dense mat: lvs. roundish, more deeply notched at the base than catnip, and green on both sides, the floral ones like the others, not reduced to bracts as in the other kinds here described; lower petioles longer than the lvs.: whorls axillary, few-fld., blue. Nat. from Eu., Asia. C.L.A. 23:57. B.B. 3:87. G.W. 9, pp. 244, 245; 13, p. 558−Other old vernacular names are alehoof. cat's-foot, gill, gillale, gill-go-by-the-ground, hayhofe, haymaids, hove, tunhoof, creeping charlie, robin-run-away, gill-runover, crow-vituals, wild snake-root, hedge-maids. March- June.—The green-lvd. form is less cult. than var. variegata, Hort. (N. hederacea, Trev., var. variegata, Hort.).


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