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 Calow
Ullesthorpe
19 May 2011
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe
19 May 2011
Sally Cunningham
Croft
10 May 2012
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
15 June 2015
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe
19 May 2011
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe
15 July 2011
ripe seed pods
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David Gould
Croft Pasture, Leics.
22 May 2015
Graham Calow
Croft Pasture
02 May 2013
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
15 June 2015
David Nicholls
Croft Pasture
09 May 2014
David Nicholls
Croft Pasture
09 May 2014
David Gould
Croft Pasture, Leics.
22 May 2015
Graham Calow
Croft Pasture
16 April 2014
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe
19 May 2011
David Nicholls
Croft Pasture
09 May 2014
Graham Calow
Croft Pasture
09 May 2014
David Nicholls
Croft Pasture
09 May 2014
Graham Calow
Croft Pasture
02 May 2013
David Nicholls
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
02 September 2011
David Nicholls
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
02 September 2011
Maggie Morland
Prestwold Natural Burial Ground
31 July 2009
Maggie Morland
Prestwold Natural Burial Ground
31 July 2009
Sally Cunningham
Croft near Heathcote Arms
10 May 2012
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
15 June 2015
Graham Calow
Ullesthorpe Stewardship Farm
15 June 2015
