Species
Meadow clary
Salvia pratensis
Varieties
1 entriesSalvia pratensis is a perennial with opposite, toothed leaves and blue to purple, two-lipped flowers.
Botanical characteristics
The two-lipped corolla has bilateral symmetry, contrasting with the radial flowers of many other meadow plants. The species belongs to Lamiaceae and provides a botanical reference separate from garden-hybrid salvias.
Opposite leaves and two-lipped flowers
Blue is the colour-labelled seed reference offered for this species.
At a glance
Species profile
Characteristics
- Life cycle
- Perennial
Botanical details
- Botanical name
- Salvia pratensis
- Common names
- Introduced sage · Meadow Clary · Meadow Sage · prairie-meadow sage
- Synonyms
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- Gallitrichum pratense
- Plethiosphace pratensis
- Salvia aprica
- Salvia ceratophylloides
- Salvia pratensis caerulea
- Salvia rubicunda
- Sclarea pratensis
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Salvia
- Species
- Salvia pratensis