Salvia pilifera
Salvia pilifera
Etekli şalba
Perennial herb to c. 90 cm. Stems ascending-erect from creeping rhizome, glabrous below, glandular-villous above. Leaves pinnatisect with a broad ovate-oblong terminal segment, to 8 x 4 cm, and 1-2 pairs of smaller lateral segments, submembranous, adpressed pilose; petiole to c. 5 cm. Verticillasters 2-8-flowered, distant. Bracts c. 20 x 10 mm, long-acuminate. Pedicels c. 8 mm, erecto-patent. Calyx infundibular, c. 15 mm, to 20 mm in fruit, densely glandular-villous or glandular-pilose; upper lip tridentate, median tooth larger, longer than lower. Corolla blue-purple with white markings, 25-30 mm; tube straight, slightly pilose within; upper lip ±straight. Stamens A. Nutlets broadly elliptic, c. 4.5 x 3 mm. Fl. 5-6. Limestone slopes, in Quercus scrub, among bushes, macchie, 200-2300 m.
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element.
