Salvia verticillata

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   herbaceous

Height: 40 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 40.
Width: 32 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 32.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
Cultivation
Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 6 to 10
Flower features: blue, purple
Scientific Names

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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.[1]

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.[1]


Read about Salvia verticillata in the 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


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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Clebsch, Betsy; Carol D. Barner (2003). The New Book of Salvias. Timber Press. p. 298. ISBN 9780881925609. http://books.google.com/books?id=NM0iwB8GrQYC&pg=PA298. 

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