Crowded sage
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Crowded sage ( Salvia confertiflora ) |
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The crowded sage ( Salvia confertiflora ) is a species of the species-rich genus sage ( Salvia ) in the mint family (Lamiaceae).
description
The compressed sage is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 1.3 to 2 meters and is also about as wide.
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The leaves are dark green with a light yellowish tint. The leaf blades of the largest leaves are up to 18 inches long and 9 inches wide. The leaf surface is deeply wrinkled, the leaf edge is serrated . The stems and petioles are hairy reddish brown.
The kind is a late bloomer; the flowering time is in autumn from the beginning of September until the onset of the frost period. At flowering time, the plant is richly covered with leaves and inflorescences, so that support aids and wind protection for the flowering time are recommended in cultivation. The spike-like upright inflorescences are 30-60 centimeters long and so densely hairy that they appear as furry reddish brown. Likewise, the inflorescence stalk and the flower stalks are hairy reddish brown. The numerous flowers standing close to the inflorescence (this explains the type epithet confertiflora , translated 'densely packed-flowered') are around 1 centimeter long and orange-red.
Distribution and locations
The home of the crowded sage is southeastern Brazil . The plant has also been cultivated in gardens in the USA since the 1960s ; it was most likely already in culture in Great Britain and France.
The species can only tolerate light frosts.
Systematics
The species was first described by the Austrian botanist Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl in his work Plantarum Brasiliae Icones et Descriptiones hactenus ineditae published 1826-1833 .
A variety Salvia confertiflora var. Angustifolia described by Johann Anton Schmidt (1823–1905) in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius 1858 is not recognized as such and is therefore considered a synonym for the type.
Multiplication
The plant can easily be propagated from cuttings.
literature
- Betsy Clebsch, Carol D. Barner: The New Book of Salvias. Sages for every garden . Timber Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-88192-560-9 , pp. 86–88 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Salvia confertiflora. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 14, 2018.
- ↑ See Salvia confertifolia at IPNI.
