Page authors: Don Knoke, David Giblin
Salvia aethiopis
African sage
Specimens
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Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to the Rocky Mountains.

Habitat: A weed of dry waste places and roadsides.

Flowers: June-July

Origin: Introduced from Europe

Growth Duration: Biennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, hummingbirds

Description:
General:

: Coarse biennial from a stout taproot, the stem 2-7 dm. tall, freely branched, woolly throughout when young, becoming partly glabrate.

Leaves:

Basal and lowermost cauline leaves petiolate, with large, ovate-oblong blades 6-25 cm. long, pinnately shallowly lobed, the lobes finely dentate; cauline leaves abruptly reduced to sessile, foliaceous bracts.

Flowers:

Inflorescence an open panicle, with verticles of flowers scattered along the branches, subtended by bracts 1-2 cm. long; calyx 1 cm. long, woolly; corolla pale yellow, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, the upper lip arched and hooded; stamens 2, shortly exerted.

Fruits:

Nutlets 4.

Accepted Name:
Salvia aethiopis L.
Publication: Sp. Pl. 1: 27. 1753.

Synonyms & Misapplications:
(none provided)
Additional Resources:

PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Salvia aethiopis in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database

WA Flora Checklist: Salvia aethiopis checklist entry

OregonFlora: Salvia aethiopis information

E-Flora BC: Salvia aethiopis atlas page

CalPhotos: Salvia aethiopis photos

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