Taxonomic history:
1753: Linnaeus described this species as Dracocephalum ruyschiana in Species Plantarum, 1st edition, p. 595.
today: The current name for this species is Dracocephalum ruyschiana L.
original Latin description
Dracocephalum floribus spicatis, foliis bracteisque lanceolatis indivisis muticis.
English translation
Dracocephalum with flowers spicate; [and] with leaf blades and bracts lanceolate, undivided, and blunt-tipped.
English translation with commentary
| Dracocephalum | Dracocephalum |
| with flowers | floribus - ablative plural of third declension masculine noun flos, floris |
| spicate; | spicatis - ablative plural masculine of group A adjective spicatus, -a, -um; modifies floribus |
| [and] | [added for smoother reading] |
| with leaf blades | foliis - ablative plural of second declension neuter noun folium, folii |
| and (with) bracts | bracteisque = bracteis (ablative plural of first declension feminine noun bractea, -ae) + -que (and) |
| lanceolate, | lanceolatis - ablative plural feminine/neuter of group A adjective lanceolatus, -a, -um; modifies foliis and bracteis |
| undivided, | indivisis - ablative plural feminine/neuter of group A adjective indivisus, -a, -um; modifies foliis and bracteis |
| [and] | [added for smoother reading] |
| with blunt tips. | muticis - ablative plural feminine/neuter of group A adjective muticus, -a, -um; modifies foliis and bracteis |