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Salvia verticillata (lilac sage)

Synonyms: Covola verticillata (homotypic); Hemisphace verticillata (homotypic); Horminum verticillatum (homotypic); Sphacopsis verticillata (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Salvia verticillata, the lilac sage or whorled clary, is a herbaceous perennial native to a wide area ranging from central Europe to western Asia, and naturalized in northern Europe and North America. It was first described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1753.
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Infraspecies

Salvia verticillata amasiaca
Salvia verticillata verticillata

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [4]  Herb
Light Preference [3]  Full Sun
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry

Protected Areas

Predators

Aulacorthum solani (Foxglove aphid)[5]
Hilaphura varipes[5]
Longitarsus obliteratus <Unverified Name>[5]
Peliococcus salviae[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces biocellatus[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0