Lamiaceae FAMILY

Salvia verbenaca

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Salvia verbenaca is a herbaceous perennial plant producing a cluster of erect to ascending, branched or unbranched stems that can grow 15 - 70cm tall[ 200 Title The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. Publication Author Huxley. A. Publisher MacMillan Press Year 1992 ISBN 0-333-47494-5 Description Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine. It was probably used as a medicinal plant more than 2,000 years ago by the Romans; it was also cultivated as medicinal plant in the late Middle Ages in English gardens, though it is probably only grown as an ornamental at the present time[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeAll around the Mediterranean region, north through southwest Europe to Britain and Netherlands

HabitatIn Britain it is found wild in only one place on sand dunes at Vazon Bay in Guernsey[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ]. In Europe it is found in dry grassland, avoiding acid soils and shade. Meadows, dry slopes, on limestone; also as weed in vineyards[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].