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Troodos cat-mint is a low, aromatic perennial herb from the high peaks of Cyprus's Troodos Mountains, grown mainly in rock gardens and wildflower plantings. It needs sun, good drainage and little water once established.
Nepeta italica subsp. troodi, synonym Nepeta troodi, commonly known as Troodos cat-mint is a suberect, aromatic, perennial herb, 20–50 cm high, with a woody base and hairy tetragonal shoots. The leaves are opposite, simple, serrate, cordate at the base, deltoid, with an obtuse apex, 1-4 x 0.6–2 cm, petiolate, densely hairy. The flowers are arranged in many flowered verticillasters, and are zygomorphic, with a white corolla white and a dotted purple lower lip. It flowers June to October. The fruit is composed of 4 nutlets.
The subspecies is endemic to Cyprus where it is confined to the higher peaks of Troödos where it is not uncommon: Khnionistra, Prodromos, Troodos Square, Loumata Aeton, Xerocolymbos, and Papoutsa. It is found on rocky slopes, in forest clearings or under pines on igneous rocks, at altitudes of 1100–1950 m.
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