Salvia viridis
Salvia viridis
Zarif şalba
Annual. Stems simple or branched, 25 crn, glandular- or eglandular-pilose, topped by a usually violet coma or coma absent. Leaves simple, oblong- ovate, c. 5 x 2.5 cm, finely crenulate; petiole 2-5 cm. Verticillasters 4-6-flowered, distant or approximating. Bracts broadly ovate, c. 10 x 10 mm; bracteoles present. Pedicels 2-3 mm, erect, flattened. Calyx tubular, 7-10 mm, to c. 12 mm in fruit and strongly deflexed, eglandular-pilose or glandular; upper lip ±truncate. Corolla lilac-purple to white, 12-15 mm; tube straight, glabrous within; upper lip broad, ± falcate. Stamens B. Nutlets oblong-elliptic, 3 x 1.5 mm. 2n = 16. Fl. 3-7. Rocky slopes, macchie with Cistus, phrygana, sand-dunes, fields and waste ground, s.l.-1300 m.
Most of the Mediterranean area, Crimea, Cyprus, Caucasia, Iran , N. Iraq. Medit. element. The only annual species of Salvia in Turkey.
