Salvia recognita
Salvia recognita
Puslu şalba
Perennial herb. Stems 40-90 cm, erect, quadrangular, branched above, glandular-villous above and below with long spreading hairs, glabrous and glaucous in middle. Leaves pinnate with a large oblong-ovate terminal segment, 4-8 x 3-5 cm and 1-2 pairs of small lateral segments, rugose, crenulate, glandular-pilose; petiole 4-8 cm. Verticillasters 4-6-flowered, clearly distant. Bracts to 12 mm, deciduous. Pedicels 3-5 mm, ±erect. Calyx ovate, c. 12 mm, to 18 mm in fruit, glandular-villous, upper lip straight, very shortly tridentate, not mucronate. Corolla lilac-pink, 35-40 mm; tube straight, widening above, ± annulate c. 14 mm from base; upper lip straight. Stamens A. Nutlets ± spherical, c. 3.5 x 3 mm. 2n = 14, 16. Fl. 5-8. Limestone and igneous slopes and screes in steppe, Quercus scrub, 900-2200 m.
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element.
