Salvia glutinosa

Plant Characteristics

Habit		shrub
Height:	⇕	40 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 40.
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

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	part-sun
Features:	✓	deciduous, flowers
USDA Zones:		6 to 10
Flower features:	❀	orange, yellow

Scientific Names

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Salvia glutinosa is native to Central and East Europe, and West Asia. It is a deciduous perennial, up to about 1 meter in height, with yellow or yellow brown flowers. Its common names are Glutinous Sage, Sticky Sage, Jupiter's Sage, and Jupiter's distaff.

Read about Salvia glutinosa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Salvia glutinosa, Linn. (S. nubicola, Wall.). Perennial, about 3 ft. high: st. herbaceous, erect, glutinous-pilose, divaricately branched: lvs. petiolate, the lowest 7-8 in. long, the upper smaller, ovate-oblong, acuminate, dentate, the base cordate-sagittate; floral lvs. ovate, acuminate: racemes simple; floral whorls distant, laxly few-fld.; calyx tubular; corolla pale yellow, often 1 1/2 in. long, the tube exserted with its throat broadened. July. Eu. and Asia. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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