Salvia verticillata

Salvia verticillata subsp. var.	Lilac sage
	Habit: herbaceous Height: ⇕ to Width: ⇔ to 40in 32in Height: ⇕ warning.png"" cannot be used as a page name in this wiki. to 40 in Width: ⇔ warning.png"" cannot be used as a page name in this wiki. to 32 in Lifespan: ⌛ perennial Origin: ✈ Poisonous: ☠ Bloom: ❀ early summer, mid summer, late summer	Exposure: ☼ sun Water: ◍ Features: ✓ flowers Hidden fields, interally pass variables to right place Minimum Temp: ☃ °Fwarning.png"°F" is not a number. USDA Zones: 6 to 10 Sunset Zones: Flower features: ❀ blue, purple
	Lamiaceae > Salvia verticillata var. , L.

Salvia verticillata is a herbaceous perennial native to a wide area ranging from central Europe to western Asia, and naturalized in northern Europe and North America. It was first described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1753.

Salvia verticillata has a leafy base of mid-green leaves covered with hairs, putting up leaf-covered stems that carry 3 ft m inflorescences. The tiny lavender flowers grow tightly packed in whorls, with tiny lime-green and purple calyces. The specific epithet verticillata refers to the whorls that grow in verticils. A cultivar introduced in the 1990s, 'Purple Rain', is much more showy and long-blooming, growing about 2 ft m tall.

Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Salvia verticillata, Linn. Perennial, 2-3 ft. high: sts. herbaceous, erect, pilose-hispid: lvs., the base cordate, lyrate, the uppermost lobe the largest, ovate-rotund or entire, sinuate-crenate, both surfaces hispid or lanate; floral lvs. deflexed and bract-like: racemes branched, often a foot or more long; floral whorls 20-40-fld., remote; calyx villous, corolla lilac-blue, the tube included. July and Aug. Eu., Asia Minor and Caucasus region. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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