Irish wildflowers
Photographs: Co. Waterford |
Wild Clary Salvia verbenaca Tormán Family: Lamiaceae Flowering May - August. Perennial. Native. Loose spikes of two-lipped, purplish-blue flowers, usually in whorls of 6. Smaller, non-opening corollas are hidden in the calyx. Basal rosettes have stalked oblong-oval leaves, irregularly deep-toothed and wrinkled but the stem leaves are stalkless. A slightly sage-scented plant, height 30-80cm Rare, mainly found on the south and east Irish coasts on dry, +/- base-rich dunes, grasslands and roadsides. |
Wild Clary, Salvia verbenaca, Tormán
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