Salvia napifolia
Salvia napifolia
Ters şalba
Perennial herb. Stems erect, several, branched above, villous, especially near stem base, shortly eglandular-pilose above with sessile glands. Leaves usually simple, occasionally lyrate, ovate to broadly ovate, 3-8 x 2-6 cm, villous with sessile glands, crenate to erose, irregularly cordate; petiole 1-5 cm, white-ciliate. Verticillasters 8-20-flowered, clearly distant. Bracts ovate-acuminate, c. 5 x 2 mm, deciduous. Pedicels 3-6 mm. Calyx ±tubular, c. 8 mm, purple-violet, pilose with sessile glands, expanding in fruit to 10 mm with broad bisulcate upper lips and ± deflexed. Corolla purplish-violet, c. 12 mm; tube c. 8 mm, annulate; upper lip straight, equal to lower, not narrowed at base. Stamens C. Nutlets rounded trigonous, ovoid-ellipsoid, 2.5 x 1.5 mm, 2n = 32. Fl. 4-7. Rocky slopes, Quercus coccifera macchie, Poterium phrygana, roadsides, nr s.l.-900 m.
Latakia? E. Medit. element.
