Salvia tomentosa
Salvia tomentosa
Şalba
Perennial clump-forming suffruticose herb. Stems to 1 m, stiffly erect, quadrangular, often branched above, eglandular-tomentose with sessile glands . Leaves simple, narrowly oblong to ovate, 2-11 x 0.8-5 cm, rounded to cordate at base , entire to crenulate; petiole 1.7-5.5 cm. Verticillasters 4-10-flowered, distant or condensed above. Bracts broadly ovate, 5-8 x 4-8 mm, deciduous; bracteoles present. Pedicels 5-10 mm. Calyx ± tubular, 12-16 mm, accrescent to 14-18 mm in fruit, usually violet, pilose to villous, with or without capitate glandular hairs; upper lip shortly tridentate. Corolla lilac to purple, or white, c. 25-30 mm; tube straight, 18-22 mm, incompletely annulate; upper lip straight. Stamens A. Nutlets rounded trigonous, ±spherical, 3.5 x 3.2 mm. 2n = 14, 15, 16. Fl. 4-8. Often associated with Pinus brutia and P. nigra, Quercus pubescens, in macchie, on limestone or igneous slopes, 90-2000 m.
Crimea, Lebanon, Latakia, Balkans, Soviet Armenia. Medit. element.
