Phlomis alpina Pallas
Acta Acad. Petrop. 2:265 (1779)
Synonym:
Phlomoides alpina (Pallas) Adylov, Kamelin & Makhmedov

Distribution in the wild:
China, former USSR (Central Asia, Siberia), in alpine and forest zones, in meadows.

Flowering in the wild: June-August
alpina means of alpine regions.
Much smaller than P. tuberosa and without its large tubers, but with thickened roots. Leaves are much smaller than P. tuberosa and flowering stems are unbranched.

Herbaceous perennial 20-50 cm. string-like roots. Basal leaves ovate, cordate at base, 13-15 × 10 cm; petioles longer than lamina. Stem leaves ovate-oblong to linear-lanceolate, 10 × 3-5 cm. Upper stem leaves short petioled. Lower floral leaves ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, with rounded teeth at margin, 7-11 × 2-4 cm. Upper floral leaves linear-lanceolate, with obtuse teeth or entire at margin, covered on both sides with scattered 1-jointed hairs. Many whorls per unbranched stem which is almost hairless at bottom and covered with soft retrorse or stellate hairs above. Bracteoles slightly incurved, narrowly linear, 9-11 mm, clothed with long spreading multi-articulate hairs. Calyx campanulate; teeth rounded-ovate terminating in a subulate point, 2-3 mm. Corolla pink. Nutlets hairy at apex.