Sideritis clandestina (Bory & Chaub.) Hayek
Synonymy
Taxon info
Sideritis clandestina belongs to a small group of perennials of S. sect. Empedoclia. The dried leaves and inflorescences of several species are used for “mountain tea”, usually picked wild by villagers but now also cultivated. Sideritis clandestina is an endemic of Peloponnisos, growing on rocky limestone slopes at 1200–2300 m. The plants photographed are from the locus classicus (Mt Taigetos) and belong to subsp. clandestina.A
A. Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, Th., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A. & Tzanoudakis, D. 2013: Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. 31: p. 346 [Plate 15.4]