Salvia hypargeia
Salvia hypargeia
Siyahot
Perennial herb forming tufts to 60 cm diam. Stems erect, sturdy, 25-40 cm, usually unbranched, eglandular arachnoid to lanate below, glandular pilose above. Leaves simple, linear to linear-oblong, mostly basal, greenish above, white lanate below, margins subentire, 4-8 x 0.5-1 cm, incl. indistinct petiole. Verticillasters 4-8-flowered, clearly distant. Bracts broadly ovate, c. 15 x 12 mm, lower surface lanate. Pedicels 2-3 mm, ± erect. Calyx tubular-ovate, c. 10 mm, to c. 12 mm in fruit, lanate and glandular; upper lip truncate. Corolla lavender to purplish-blue, c. 25 mm; tube straight, slightly ventricose above; upper lip falcate. Stamens B. Nutlets rounded trigonous, 3.5 x 2.5 mm, 2n = 22. Fl. 6-7. Limestone slopes and banks, with Pinus brutia, fallow fields, 800-2000 m.
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element. Closely related to S. montbretii
