Salvia glutinosa

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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
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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.


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