Salvia chionantha
Salvia chionantha
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Perennial herb. Stems erect, usually solitary, 50-120 cm, sturdy, quadrangular, densely glandular-pilose with capitate glandular hairs. Leaves mostly basal, linear-lanceolate, 8-22 x 1.5-4 cm, lanate-pannose with sessile glands, entire to crenulate, attenuate into 2-6 cm petiole. Inflorescence widely paniculate. Verticillasters 4-6-flowered, clearly distant. Bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, c. 8-14 x 5-8 mm.Pedicels 3-6 mm. Calyx campanulate, 12-15 mm, to 15-18 mm in fruit, glandular-pilose. Corolla white, 25-35 mm; tube ventricose, squamulate, c. 10 mm; upper lip strongly falcate. Stamens B. Nutlets unknown. 2n = 16. Fl. 5-6. Quercus scrub, fields, 1000-1350 m.
Endemic. E. Medit. element. With some affinity to S. argentea but clearly differing in leaf shape and the long pedicels.
