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Nepeta bituminosa

Family LamiaceaeGenus Nepeta

Also published as Hymenocrater bituminosus. You are in the right place.

Pale papery yellow-green bracts with slender lilac two-lipped flowers emerging between them
FlowerKrzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizCC BY-SA 4.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
perennial or subshrubPlants of the World Online
Flower
LilacRead from the photograph on this page

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden.

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Moderate Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Cold moist stratification

    Temperature: 40°F 4°C

Germination happens during step 1, in 56 days.

65% germination in 14–56 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Hymenocrater p. 154Public domain
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Hymenocrater (Lamiaceae). H. bituminosus germ. 68% in 4-8 d in either 70D or 70L and 40(65% in 2-8 w).
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Hymenocrater p. 154. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

Germination trials

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