Salvia horminoides Pouret
Salvia horminoides is an old name for wild clary, now usually treated as part of Salvia verbenaca, a native British perennial of the mint family. It forms a basal rosette of wrinkled, scalloped and lobed leaves from which upright, square flowering stems rise, carrying whorls of small, two-lipped violet-blue flowers in loose spikes through late spring and summer.
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Salvia horminoides is an old name for wild clary, now usually treated as part of Salvia verbenaca, a native British perennial of the mint family. It forms a basal rosette of wrinkled, scalloped and lobed leaves from which upright, square flowering stems rise, carrying whorls of small, two-lipped violet-blue flowers in loose spikes through late spring and summer. The flowers are often partly closed and can be inconspicuous, but the plant has a distinctive, rather rough-textured appearance.
It is a plant of dry, sunny, well-drained ground, growing on grassland, banks, roadsides, coastal grassland and other open places, frequently on lime-rich or sandy soils. The flowers are visited by bees, and as a tough, drought-tolerant native it suits sunny meadows, banks and seed mixes for dry calcareous ground. Because it is the same species as wild clary, it is best regarded simply as a form of that native plant rather than a separate garden subject.
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