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|familia=Lamiaceae
|familia=Lamiaceae
|genus=Salvia
|genus=Salvia
|species=forskaohlii
|species=forskaohlii
|habit=herbaceous
|Max ht box=36
|Max ht box=36
|Max ht metric=in
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|image_width=240
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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.<ref name="Clebsch">{{cite book|last=Clebsch|first=Betsy|coauthors=Carol D. Barner|title=The New Book of Salvias|publisher=Timber Press|date=2003|page=120|isbn=9780881925609|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NM0iwB8GrQYC&pg=PA120}}</ref>
==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==
