Salvia ceratophylla
Salvia ceratophylla
Tarak şalba
Biennial herb, lemon-scented. Stems sturdy, 30-60 cm, glandular-villous, densely so above. Leaves mostly basal, pinnatifid, oblong in outline, with spreading linear segments, white-lanate when young, 12-25 x 4-8 cm, rachis winged; petiole subabsent. Inflorescence spreading paniculate, yellowish-green. Verticillasters 2-5-flowered, distant. Bracts ovate, cuspidate, c. 15 x 12 mm. Pedicels erecto-patent, 2-4 mm. Calyx ovate-campanulate, c. 12 mm, to c. 16 mm in fruit with diverging lips, glandular-villous; upper lip tridentate with cuspidate teeth. Corolla cream or sulphur, rarely with lilac upper lip, 15-20 mm; tube c. 4 mm, abruptly ventricose, squamulate; upper lip falcate. Stamens B. Nutlets spherical, c. 3.5 x 3 mm. 2n = 44. Fl. 4-6. Limestone, igneous and gypsum slopes, corn and fallow fields, waste ground, 300-2150 m.
Palestine, Syrian Desert, Soviet Armenia, N. Iraq?, Iran, Afghanistan. Ir.Tur. element.
