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.
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