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Scientific name:

Salvia verticillata

Vernacular name:

Clary, Whorled


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Whorled Clary

Scientific name: Salvia verticillata L.

Diagnostic features
Erect perennial to 80cm, with eglandular hairs and sessile glands.
Leaves ovate, cordate at base, crenate-dentate, sometimes the lower ones lobed.
Bracts small, green, brown or purplish-tinged.
Corolla 8-15mm, lilac-blue.

Chromosome number: (2n=16).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; casual or sometimes naturalized in rough ground and by roads and railways.

Distribution
Scattered in Central & South Britain, Lanarks; South Europe.

This species is keyed out on Page 3097 in the Text Key.

Salvia verticillata (Clary, Whorled)
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