Phlomis chrysophylla
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A low subshrub. Leaves broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic or oblong-ovate, up to 21⁄4 in. long and 11⁄2 in. wide, obtuse to roundish at the apex, base mostly truncate to cordate and abruptly decurrent onto the petiole, sometimes cuneate, densely stellate-hairy on both sides, all the veins impressed above, raised beneath; petioles 1⁄2 to 1 in. long. Flowering stems 1 ft or more long, with one or two distant whorls of yellow flowers; calyx-teeth shortly spine-tipped.
Native of the Lebanon, etc. It is sometimes cultivated for the golden-green tinge of the young leaves, which comes from the colouring of the hairs. On dried specimens the indumentum on the younger leaves soon becomes a deep, vivid yellow, whence the specific epithet chrysophylla, which the living plants scarcely merit.