Salvia pinnata
Salvia pinnata
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Perennial herb, stems to c. 60 cm, procumbent to erect, quadrangular, densely glandular villous. Leaves irregularly pinnatisect, with an ovate-oblong terminal segment to c. 7 x 4 cm and 2-5 pairs of sessile or petiolulate lateral segments irregularly arranged, submembranous, crenate-serrate, glandular-pilose; petiole 4-12 cm. Verticillasters 4-6-flowered, distant. Bracts c. 6 mm, ovate, soon deciduous. Pedicels 12-15 mm, erecto-patent. Calyx urceolate, often purplish, c. 12-15 mm, scarcely expanding in fruit, densely glandular-villous; upper lip truncate, obsoletely tridentate. Corolla mauve-pink, 25-30 mm; tube gradually widening towards throat, longitudinally pilose within; upper lip ± straight, shorter than lower. Stamens A. Nutlets ± spherical, c. 2.5 x 2.25 mm. Fl. 3-5. Cornfields and fallow fields, dry meadows, s.l.-1060 m.
Cyprus, Palestine, Lebanon. Medit. element.
