Whorled Clary - Salvia verticillata
Medium to tall, rather foetid plant with erect usually unbranched stems, often purplish, without glands. Leaves oval to lyre shaped, with a square or heart shaped base, the upper leaves usually unstalked. Flowers lilac blue to purplish 8 to 15 mm long, in dense whorls of 15 to 30 the upper lip more or less straight.
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Dry grassland, bare and stony places.
May to August.
Perennial
Uncommon and local, mainly confined to the southern half of Britain.
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi & Evans, 1988) it was found in 3 of the 617 tetrads.
In the VC55 Checklist (Jeeves 2011) it is listed as Alien (Casual); disturbed ground
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
02 August 2011
seeds
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
02 August 2011
seeds
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
02 August 2011
leaves
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
02 August 2011
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Species profile
- Common names
- Whorled Clary
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Lamiales
- Family:
- Lamiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 02/08/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 02/08/2011 (Calow, Graham)
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