| Habit | herbaceous
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|---|---|---|
| Height: | ⇕ | 36 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36. |
| Width: | ⇔ | 20 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20. |
| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Bloom: | ❀ | early summer, mid summer, late summer |
| Exposure: | ☼ | sun, part-sun |
|---|---|---|
| Features: | ✓ | flowers |
| USDA Zones: | 7 to 11 | |
| Flower features: | ❀ | blue, purple |
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Salvia forsskaolii is a herbaceous perennial shrub endemic to the southeastern Balkan peninsula, ranging from Bulgaria and Greece to the Black Sea coastline of Turkey. It grows up to 6,000 ft elevation in broad-leaved and coniferous forests, meadows, and on steep banks. It was named after Finnish explorer and naturalist Peter Forsskål, a student of Carl Linnaeus who collected plants in southwest Arabia in the 1700s.
The plant grows into large basal clumps 2 ft tall and wide, with hairy leaves that are parsley-green in spring, turning dark green in summer. The flower whorls are few and widely spaced, with the flower a showy two-lipped violet-blue color that has white streaks with yellow markings on the lower lip.[1]
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References
- ↑ Clebsch, Betsy; Carol D. Barner (2003). The New Book of Salvias. Timber Press. p. 120. ISBN 9780881925609. http://books.google.com/books?id=NM0iwB8GrQYC&pg=PA120.
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