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Salvia officinalis - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Botanical Garden of the J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Salvia officinalis - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Braga, Portugal; 5/2011 © Jörn Germer

Salvia officinalis - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Braga, Portugal; 5/2011 © Jörn Germer

Salvia officinalis - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Botanical Garden of the J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Salvia officinalis - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Botanical Garden of the J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Salvia officinalis - Upper and lower leaf surface - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower leaf surface; Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 9/2007 © Jörn Germer

Salvia officinalis - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Botanical Garden of the J.W. Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 6/2008 © Jörn Germer

Salvia officinalis - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 9/2007 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 659
Date of entry: 08.10.2007
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Kitchen sage

German: Echter Salbei

Mandarin: 撒尔维亚 (sa er wei ya)

Portuguese: Salva-das-boticas

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Lamiales (199)

        Family: Lamiaceae (99)(family description)

          Genus: Salvia (10)

            Epithet: officinalis L. (11)

officinalis => of practical use to man; official species in commerce, especially for medicinal purposes

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple, violet, pink

External links

Check for Salvia officinalis at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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