IRONWORT --Sideritis syriaca-- New Thin walled with smaller branches

Thin walled with smaller branches and leaves and without lower branching so it is always showing off its powder blue hue waxy coating

produces many small green star-shaped flowers with a pearly iridescent center

Plant it in heavy shade

Wonderful endangered philo has long

IRONWORT --Sideritis syriaca-- New Thin walled with smaller branchesIn Greek "Sideritis" can be literally translated as"s he who is or has the iron". Originally thought to be found on Mt. Olympus, abundant in the Mediterranean. AKA, mountain tea shepherd's tea. An herbalists staple, used in the Balkans to make a tisane similar to chamomile, using the leaves and blossoms, harvested typically around June. Both delicious and strengthening, the tea was used medicinally as an anti inflammatory and to strengthen the immune