Salvia aethiopis, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 190

16. S. aethiopis L. , Sp. Pl. 27 (1753) .

Biennial or perennial 30-100 cm. Stems robust, erect, white-lanate, eglandular, more or less leafless above. Leaves simple, petiolate, more or less ovate, acuminate, deeply and irregularly serrate, lanate when young. Verticillasters with 6-10 flowers. Bracts slightly shorter than calyx, green or violet-tinged. Calyx 5-8 mm, lanate. Corolla 10-15 mm, white; upper lip weakly falcate. In — 24. S. & S.E. Europe, extending northwards to S. Czechoslovakia and to c. 51° N. in S.C. Russia. Au Bu Cz Ga G r Hs Hu It Ju Lu Rm Rs (W, K) Tu [Ge Po].