Salvia frigida
Salvia frigida
Sağır şalba
Perennial herb with a thick woody rootstock. Stems solitary or several, erect, 10-30 cm, below pilose to villous with sessile glands, densely glandular above with capitate glands. Leaves mostly basal, variable, ovate to narrowly oblong, 2-12 x 1.2-5 cm, crenulate to erose, rugulose, arachnoid to ± lanate with many sessile glands; petiole 1.5-8 cm. Inflorescence little branched to widely paniculate. Verticillasters 2-6-flowered, usually distant. Bracts ovate to orbicular, c. 8-12 x 7-11 mm. Pedicels 2-3 mm. Calyx campanulate to infundibular, 7-10 mm, to 10-12 mm in fruit and widening, densely capitate-glandular; teeth usually prominently spinulose; upper lip tridentate, median tooth much shorter, truncate or not. Corolla white to lilac, 12-16 mm; tube c. 8 mm, ventricose, squamulate; upper lip narrow, somewhat falcate, scarcely bifid. Stamens B. Nutlets ovoid, c. 3.5 x 2.5 mm. 2n = 20, 21, 22. Fl. 5-7. Pinus nigra, Juniperus, Abies and Pyrus woodland, limestone slopes and crevices, meadows, 1000-2450 m.
N.W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.
