Salvia suffruticosa
Salvia suffruticosa
Kalın şalba
Perennial herb, somewhat suffruticose at base. Stems many, ascending, 30-60 cm, branched above, often yellowish-green, usually glabrous, occasionally pilose. Leaves pinnatisect, ovate in outline, terminal segment lanceolate, 2.5-5.5 x 0.5-2 cm, with 2-3 pairs of smaller lateral segments, pilose on veins with some 2-3 pairs of smaller lateral segments, pilose on veins with some sessile glands, serrulate to serrate; petiole 1-3 cm. Verticillasters 2-8flowered, distant. Bracts ovate-acuminate, 8-17 x 4-8 mm; bracteoles present. Pedicels 3-8 mm. Calyx campanulate, 10-12 mm, to c. 15 mm in fruit and broadening, subglabrous to pilose-villous with dark subsessile glands; upper lip tridentate. Corolla sulphur yellow or with lilac coloration, 22-25 mm; tube c. 15 mm, annulate; upper lip ± straight. Stamens A. Nutlets rounded trigonous, ovoid, 4.5 x 3.5 mm. Fl. 4-6. Banks in steppe, fallow fields, vineyards, 300-2000 m.
Soviet Armenia, Syrian Desert, N. Iraq, N.W. & W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.
