Galeopsis L.
Annual herbs. Lvs simple, toothed. Verticels in dense, terminal and axillary whorls, the uppermost crowded, the lower distant. Bracts resembling, but smaller than, foliage lvs; bracteoles subulate, pungent or spine-tipped. Calyx tubular-campanulate, not gibbous at base, 5-toothed; teeth rather unequal, pungent. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip hooded; lower lip 3-lobed, with 2 conic projections at base; tube = or much > calyx, straight, with ring of hairs inside. Stamens lying beneath upper lip; anthers ciliate, parallel. Style gynobasic. Nutlets bluntly trigonous.
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Stems swollen at nodes when fresh, hispid on 2 opposite sides, otherwise with few or no hairs
c. 10 spp., temperate Eurasia. Naturalised spp. 2.
Fls of the 2 naturalised spp. are illustrated in Fig. 76.
![Fig. 76. Fls of Galeopsis. A G. ladanum; B G. tetrahit. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X63]](https://data.landcareresearch.co.nz/Image/4X63/SysPortalPreview)
