Salvia cyanescens
Salvia cyanescens
Mor galabor
Perennial herb. Stems erect, 25-50 cm, branched above, pilose to lanate below, pilose with sessile glands to ± densely papillose glandular above. Leaves simple, oblong to broadly ovate to suborbicular, 3-9 x 2-6.5 cm, pannose, serrulate to subentire, ± cordate; petiole 1-7 cm, Inflorescence paniculate with slender branches; verticillasters 2-6-flowered, distant. Bracts broadly ovate-acuminate, 2.5-6 x 2-4.5 mm. Pedicels 1.5-3 mm. Calyx tubular-campanulate, usually purple tinted, 7-10 mm, to 9-12 mm in fruit, shortly pilose or papillose glandular; upper lip tridentate, median tooth longer or shorter than laterals, scarcely mucronate. Corolla lilac to violet, 16-20 mm; tube 7-8 mm, ventricose, squamulate ; upper lip strongly falcate. Stamens B. Nutlets rounded trigonous, ovoid, 2.5 x 1.7 mm. Fl. 6-9. Limestone and igneous slopes, shale banks, Pinus nigra forest, gravel river beds, fallow fields, Vineyards, 400-c. 2300 m.
Endemic. Ir-Tur, element.
