Wild clary
Salvia verbenaca
Synonyms: Salvia gracilis, Salvia pyrenaica, Salvia agrestis, Salvia ceratophylla, Salvia dubia, Salvia verbenaca subsp. horminoides, Salvia sennenii var. acanthifolia, Salvia multifida var. delicatula, Gallitrichum horminioides, Salvia verbenaca subsp. foetens, Horminum verbenacum, Salvia verbenaca var. australis, Salvia clandestina, Salvia verbenaca subsp. ochroleuca, Salvia verbenaca var. serrata, Salvia verbenaca subsp. clandestina, Salvia linnaei subsp. horminioides, Salvia verbenaca var. delicatula, Salvia verbenaca var. bicolor, Gallitrichum stereocaulon, Salvia fontii, Salvia rhodantha, Salvia intricata, Salvia weihaiensis, Larnastyra claytonii, Salvia byzantina, Salvia anselmii, Salvia verbenaca var. sabulicola, Salvia cleistogama, Salvia verbenaca var. controversa, Salvia verbenaca subsp. claudi, Gallitrichum dichroanthum, Horminum sylvestre, Salvia ochroleuca, Gallitrichum maculatum, Gallitrichum ptychophyllum, Salvia verbenaca subsp. oblongata, Salvia verbenacoides, Salvia verbenaca var. ovatocrenata, Salvia verbenaca subsp. multifida, Salvia verbenaca subsp. horminioides, Salvia verbenaca var. oblongifolia, Salvia multifida, Salvia clandestina subsp. multifida, Salvia horminoides var. pinnatiloba, Salvia mediterranea, Gallitrichum verbenacum, Salvia polymorpha, Salvia controversa, Salvia barcinonensis, Gallitrichum anglicum, Salvia pallidiflora, Salvia verbenaca var. horminioides, Larnastyra verbenaca, Salvia electa, Salvia verbenaca subsp. sabulicola, Salvia verbenaca var. serotina, Gallitrichum candollei, Salvia discolor, Salvia parviflora, Salvia clandestinoides, Salvia verbenaca var. clandestina, Salvia sabulicola, Salvia verbenaca var. oblongata, Salvia verbenifolia, Salvia verbenaca var. laxispica, Salvia clandestina var. controversa, Salvia candollei, Salvia verbenaca var. vernalis, Salvia verbenaca var. dubia, Salvia acutata, Salvia verbenaca var. anglica, Salvia verbenaca var. sinuata, Gallitrichum rosulatum, Gallitrichum virgatum, Salvia linnaei, Salvia domenechii, Salvia linnaei subsp. multifida, Gallitrichum arvale, Salvia verbenaca var. spielmannii, Salvia clandestina var. pallidiflora, Salvia laciniata, Salvia hiemalis, Sclarea rhodantha, Sclarea verbenaca, Salvia spielmanniana, Salvia vivianii, Salvia verbenaca var. integrifolia, Salvia erosa, Salvia clandestina var. obtusata, Salvia subscaposa, Salvia clandestina var. hiemalis, Gallitrichum clandestinum, Salvia lowei, Sclarea decidua, Salvia verbenaca var. disermas, Salvia verbenaca var. multifida, Salvia sennenii, Gallitrichum pallidiflorum, Salvia linnaei subsp. oblongata, Salvia claytonii, Salvia eriocaulis, Salvia anglica, Sclarea viscosissima, Salvia verbenaca subsp. controversa, Salvia disermas, Salvia verbenaca var. praecox, Salvia neglecta, Salvia illyrica, Horminum parviflorum, Salvia linnaei subsp. clandestina, Gallitrichum rubellum, Salvia basilii, Salvia theodori, Salvia obtusata, Salvia barnolae, Salvia ambigua, Salvia verbenaca subsp. battandieri, Salvia linnaei subsp. verbenaca, Salvia clandestina var. multifida, Salvia verbenaca var. amplifrons, Salvia horminioides, Salvia variabilis, Salvia betonicifolia, Salvia oblongata
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Botanical Description
Salvia verbenaca, wild clary or vervain sage, is an aromatic perennial herb in the family Lamiaceae forming a rosette of mostly basal leaves and erect to sprawling, four-angled, hairy flowering stems typically 30–80 cm tall. The basal leaves are 3–10 cm long, oblong to ovate, deeply toothed or pinnatifid, dark green and somewhat rugose; the stem leaves are smaller and reduced upwards. From June to September it bears whorls of small two-lipped, soft purple to violet-blue flowers in long, interrupted terminal spikes; many of the flowers are cleistogamous and self-pollinating, while others attract bees. Small smooth nutlets ripen between July and October. Native to the British Isles, the Mediterranean region of southern Europe, North Africa, the Near East and the Caucasus, the species grows in dry calcareous grassland, roadsides, waste places and rocky banks. It has naturalised widely as an introduced plant in the eastern United States, California, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, southern Africa, Tasmania, New Zealand and China.
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