Salvia verticillata
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves - tea, Stems
The leaves are used for tea, and the stems are edible.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant.
Armenia, Caucasus, Europe, Georgia, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Turkey, Türkiye,
How to Identify
A temperate herb in the mint family (Lamiaceae) with leaves and stems used for culinary purposes.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Salvia verticillata, the lilac sage or whorled clary, is a herbaceous perennial native to a wide area ranging from central Europe to western Asia, and naturalized in northern Europe and North America. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. Salvia verticillata has a leafy base of mid-green leaves covered with hairs, putting up leaf-covered stems that carry 3 feet (0.91 m) inflorescences. The tiny lavender flowers grow tightly packed in whorls, with tiny lime-green and purple calyces. The specific epithet verticillata refers to the whorls that grow in verticils. A cultivar introduced in the 1990s, 'Purple Rain', is much more showy and long-blooming, growing about 2 feet (0.61 m) tall.
Names & Synonyms
Dadirak, Djara, Eghespak, Vretenčasta kadulja
References (5)
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