Wild Clary - Salvia verbenaca
Description
The purple blue flowers are in whorls in the terminal spike. The calyx has 5 teeth, split between an upper and lower lip. The upper lip has 4 of the teeth. The stem leaves are in pairs clasping the stem. Each pair at about 90 degrees to the last and toothed.
Identification difficulty
Habitat
Grassland, bare ground, roadsides, dunes and slacks.
When to see it
May to August.
Life History
Perennial.
UK Status
Local in central and southern England and Wales, rare elsewhere.
VC55 Status
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 3 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham CalowUllesthorpe19 May 2011
Graham CalowUllesthorpe19 May 2011
Sally CunninghamCroft10 May 2012
Graham CalowUllesthorpe Stewardship Farm15 June 2015
Graham CalowUllesthorpe19 May 2011
Graham CalowUllesthorpe15 July 2011ripe seed pods
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David GouldCroft Pasture, Leics.22 May 2015
Graham CalowCroft Pasture02 May 2013
Graham CalowUllesthorpe Stewardship Farm15 June 2015
David NichollsCroft Pasture09 May 2014
David NichollsCroft Pasture09 May 2014
David GouldCroft Pasture, Leics.22 May 2015
Graham CalowCroft Pasture16 April 2014
Graham CalowUllesthorpe19 May 2011
David NichollsCroft Pasture09 May 2014
Graham CalowCroft Pasture09 May 2014
David NichollsCroft Pasture09 May 2014
Graham CalowCroft Pasture02 May 2013
David NichollsUllesthorpe Stewardship Farm02 September 2011
David NichollsUllesthorpe Stewardship Farm02 September 2011
Maggie MorlandPrestwold Natural Burial Ground31 July 2009
Maggie MorlandPrestwold Natural Burial Ground31 July 2009
Sally CunninghamCroft near Heathcote Arms10 May 2012
Graham CalowUllesthorpe Stewardship Farm15 June 2015
Graham CalowUllesthorpe Stewardship Farm15 June 2015
