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Clinopodium vulgare (wild basil)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Clinopodium vulgare, wild basil, is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family.
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Infraspecies

Clinopodium vulgare arundanum
Clinopodium vulgare orientale
Clinopodium vulgare vulgare

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue
Flower Color [1]  Purple
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees, Lepidoptera, Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  A yellow and a brown dye are obtained from the leaves;
Height [2]  18 inches (0.45 m)
Width [2]  18 inches (0.45 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry
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Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Puccinia menthae[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0