Spreading pellitory or pellitory of the wall - Parietaria judaica L. - Ελξίνη η ιουδαϊκή - Περδικάκι - Cyprus

Parietaria judaica, with common names spreading pellitory or pellitory of the wall, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the family Urticaceae, commonly nicknamed sticky-weed. The plant's pollen is highly allergenic. In Australia it is also known as asthma weed, due to the high incidence of allergy. It is unrelated to the herb pellitory (Anacyclus pyrethrum). It is easily confused with the very similar species Parietaria officinalis.
Parietaria (Latin): Wall-dweller (a name used by the Roman naturalist and philosopher Pliny). Judaica (Latin): Of Judaea, Jewish, from Palestine
The biological form of Parietaria judaica is hemicryptophyte scapose, as its overwintering buds are situated just below the soil surface and the floral axis is more or less erect. This plant has pink or red hairy stems, woody at the base. It reaches on average a height of 60 centimetres (24 in). The leaves are hairy, alternate, simple, entire and green, with smooth margins. The tiny white or pink flowers are attached to the stems. They are bisexual or unisexual, produced in clusters of three to many together in the leaf axils. The nickname sticky-weed is due to the adherent quality of the flowers and of the hairy stems; unlike some related species of the family Urticaceae, the hairs do not sting. The flowering period extends from spring through autumn, when it produces large amounts of pollen. The fruits are blackish achenes.
causes allergic reactions some people, especially in around the mediterranean
Generally considered a weed, it is often found on roadsides, along the dry stone walls and in cracks of buildings. However, it is useful in a habitat garden as it is a larval food plant for red admiral butterflies. It is the host plant for the larvae of butterflies of the genus Vanessa. The ideal habitat is the dry places, at an altitude of 0–1,000 metres (0–3,281 ft) above sea level.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Το περδικάκι (Parietaria judaica - Ελξίνη η ιουδαϊκή) είναι ποώδες πολυετές φυτό το οποίο ανήκει στην οικογένεια Κνιδοειδή, την οικογένεια της τσουκνίδας. Κατά τη διάρκεια της ανθοφορίας και χάρη σε μορφολογικούς μηχανισμούς των ανθέων τους, απελευθερώνουν άφθονη γύρη με μορφή νέφους. Είναι χαρακτηριστικό ότι αναπτύσσεται σε τοίχους και σε τούβλα. Η γύρη αυτού του φυτού είναι έντονα αλλεργιογόνος. Τα άνθη είναι δίοικα. Το φυτό είναι ιθαγενές στην δυτική και νότια Ευρώπη
Το περδικάκι είναι γνωστό από την αρχαιότητα για την διουρητική δράση του, ως καταπραϋντικό για τον βήχα και ως βάλσαμο για τα τραύματα και τα εγκαύματα. Σύμφωνα με τον Πλίνιο, το περδικάκι συνδέεται με τον Περικλή και την κατασκευή του Παρθενώνα. Όταν ένας εργάτης που δούλευε στην Ακρόπολη Αθηνών έπεσε από τον βράχο και τραυματίστηκε σοβαρά, η Αθηνά υπέδειξε στον Περικλή ένα περδικάκι για να περιποιηθεί τον εργάτη. Πράγματι, ο Περικλής γιάτρεψε τις πληγές βάζοντας πάνω τους φύλλα του φυτού. Επίσης, στην παραδοσιακή ιατρική της Ευρώπης χρησιμοποιείται για την τόνωση της νεφρικής λειτουργίας. Το φυτό χρησιμοποιείται είτε φρέσκο είτε αποξηραμένο.Από τη Βικιπαίδεια, την ελεύθερη εγκυκλοπαίδεια
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Thymus integer Griseb - Θύµος ο ακέραιος, Λιβανίτης Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus

 Thymus integer is a strongly aromatic, sprawling, gnarled subshrub generally less than 10 cm high. It produces white to dark rosy purple flowers between March and June.
This plant is often found on dry, rocky, igneous hillsides at altitudes of 100-1700 meters.
A Cyprus endemic, it is common in the Troödos Mountains and the Akamas area.
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Teucrium micropodioides Rouy - Τεύκριο το µικροποδιοειδές, Μητέρα - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus 

Teucrium is a genus of perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae. The name is believed to refer to King Teucer of Troy. Members of the genus are commonly known as germanders. There are hundreds of species, including herbs, shrubs or subshrubs. They are found all over the world but are most common in Mediterranean climates.

An unusual feature of this genus compared with other members of Lamiaceae is that the flowers completely lack the upper lip of the corolla, although it is somewhat reduced also in other genera (Ajuga among them).

Several species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the Coleophora case-bearers Coleophora auricella and Coleophora chamaedriella. The latter is only known from Wall Germander (T. chamaedrys).

Teucrium species are rich in essential oils. They are valued as ornamental plants and a pollen source, and some species have culinary and/or medical value.

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Teucrium karpasiticum Hadjik. & Hand - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus (Endemic to karpasia)

Teucrium is a genus of perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae. The name is believed to refer to King Teucer of Troy. Members of the genus are commonly known as germanders. There are hundreds of species, including herbs, shrubs or subshrubs. They are found all over the world but are most common in Mediterranean climates.

An unusual feature of this genus compared with other members of Lamiaceae is that the flowers completely lack the upper lip of the corolla, although it is somewhat reduced also in other genera (Ajuga among them).

Several species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the Coleophora case-bearers Coleophora auricella and Coleophora chamaedriella. The latter is only known from Wall Germander (T. chamaedrys).

Teucrium species are rich in essential oils. They are valued as ornamental plants and a pollen source, and some species have culinary and/or medical value.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Teucrium divaricatum subsp. canescens (Čelak.) Holmboe - Τεύκριο το διχαλωτό υποείδ. το πολιό - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus

Teucrium is a genus of perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae. The name is believed to refer to King Teucer of Troy. Members of the genus are commonly known as germanders. There are hundreds of species, including herbs, shrubs or subshrubs. They are found all over the world but are most common in Mediterranean climates.

An unusual feature of this genus compared with other members of Lamiaceae is that the flowers completely lack the upper lip of the corolla, although it is somewhat reduced also in other genera (Ajuga among them).

Several species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the Coleophora case-bearers Coleophora auricella and Coleophora chamaedriella. The latter is only known from Wall Germander (T. chamaedrys).

Teucrium species are rich in essential oils. They are valued as ornamental plants and a pollen source, and some species have culinary and/or medical value.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Small-spiked stonecrop - Sedum microstachyum (Kotschy) Boiss. - Σέδον το µικροστάχυον - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus

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Sedum microstachyum is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae. It is referred to by the common name small-spiked stonecrop. It is an erect, succulent, monocarpic herb, with an unbranched stem up to 40 cm high. Leaves succulent, simple, entire, glandular, hairy, reddish in sunny positions, sessile, the basal crowded in rosettes, spathulate-linear 3-7 x 0.5-1.5 cm, the higher smaller, spirally arranged. Flowers actinomorphic, small, reddish or greenish, in a cylindrical panicle, Flowers from June to September. Fruit a many-seeded follicle.

Habitat

Rock crevices on igneous formations at 1500–1900 m altitude.

Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus, confined to the Troödos forest where it is fairly common: Chromion, Khionistra, Loumata, Aeton and Troödos Square. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sedum lampusae (Kotschy) Boiss.- Πετρόχορτον - Σέδον της Λάµπουσας - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus

Sedum lampusae Is an erect herb to 50 cm, dying after one flowering. Basal leaves flat, glaucous, fleshy, spoon-shaped, 4–10 cm long, forming neat rosette which usually shrivels before the flowers open; steam leaves progressively smaller; inflorescence a long cylindrical or pyramidal spray, flowers numerous, crowded, brownish green, calyx-lobes and petals both 5, the latter narrow, pointed, 4 mm long, with a dark central vein. Stamens 10, follicles usually 5, erect, 5 mm long. Flowers from June to August.
Endemic to Cyprus. Frequent along the Kyrenia Range, notably at and above Lapithos

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Sedum eriocarpum subsp. porphyreum (Kotschy) 't Hart - Σέδον το πορφυρό - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus
Sedum eriocarpum, the purple stonecrop, is a small, annual, succulent herb, 3–6 cm high, with hairless, reddish-green stems. Leaves succulent, simple, entire, spirally arranged, hairless, stalkless, elliptical to oblong, 3–15 x 2–8 mm, green or green-reddish. Flowers actinomorphic, petals white with purplish keel. It flowers from March to May and the fruit is a follicle

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Cyprus stonecrop - Sedum cyprium A. K. Jacks. & Turrill - Σέδον το κύπριον - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus
Sedum cyprium, Cyprus stonecrop is an erect, monocarpic, succulent herb with an unbranched stem, 10-30 cm high. Leaves succulent, simple and entire reddish in sunny positions, the basal leaves in rosettes, hairless, spathulate, 3-6 x 1-2 cm, the higher leaves are thinly glandular and spirally arranged. the numerous actinomorphic flowers are greenish or reddish, gathered in a cylindrical panicle. Flowers June-Sep. Fruit a many -seeded follicle.
Rock crevices and walls mostly on igneous formations at 150-1650 m altitude.
A Cyprus endemic, locally very common in the broader Troödos Mountains, especially in the Paphos Forest-Akamas, Ayia, Stavros Psokas, Ayios Merkourios, Fleyia, Alonoudhi, Kryos Potamos, Makria Kontarka (Troödos), Evrykhou, Kalopanayiotis, Alona, Palekhori. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Scutellaria cypria subsp. elatior (Meikle) Hand - Σκουτελλρία η κυπρία ποικ. υψηλή - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus

Scutellaria is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. They are known commonly as skullcaps. The generic name is derived from the Latin scutella, meaning "a small dish, tray or platter", or "little dish", referring to the shape of the calyx. The common name alludes to the resemblance of the same structure to "miniature medieval helmets". The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution, with species occurring nearly worldwide, mainly in temperate regions

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Scutellaria cypria Rech. f. - Σκουτελλρία η κυπρία - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus

Scutellaria is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. They are known commonly as skullcaps. The generic name is derived from the Latin scutella, meaning "a small dish, tray or platter", or "little dish", referring to the shape of the calyx. The common name alludes to the resemblance of the same structure to "miniature medieval helmets". The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution, with species occurring nearly worldwide, mainly in temperate regions

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