Biology:Salvia plebeia

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Short description: Species of herb

Salvia plebeia
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Salvia
Species:
S. plebeia
Binomial name
Salvia plebeia
R.Br.

Salvia plebeia is an annual or biennial herb that is native to a wide region of Asia. It grows on hillsides, streamsides, and wet fields from sea level to 2,800 m (9,200 ft). S. plebeia grows on erect stems to a height of 15 to 90 cm (5.9 to 35.4 in) tall, with elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate leaves. Inflorescences are 6-flowered verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a distinctly small corolla (4.5 mm (0.18 in)) that comes in a wide variety of colors: reddish, purplish, purple, blue-purple, to blue, and rarely white.[1]

Notes

  1. "Lamiaceae". Flora of China (Harvard University) 17: 169. 1994. http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume17/Lamiaceae.published.pdf. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1023523 entry