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Salvia glutinosa (sticky sage)

Synonyms: Drymosphace glutinosa (homotypic); Glutinaria acuminata; Glutinaria glutinosa (homotypic); Salvia nubicola; Sclarea glutinosa (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Salvia glutinosa (glutinous sage, sticky sage, Jupiter's sage, Jupiter's distaff) is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the Lamiaceae family.
View Wikipedia Record: Salvia glutinosa

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Scent [2]  During the summer the whole plant becomes covered in a tacky substance like a fragrant gum;
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  An aromatic gum is obtained from the plant; No details are given of an uses for this gum; Plants can be grown as a ground cover when spaced about 75cm apart each way; They are useful for colonizing large areas;
Height [2]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Shady
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
View Plants For A Future Record : Salvia glutinosa

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Berchtesgaden Alps National Park II 51433 Germany
Carpathian Biosphere Reserve 144772 Ukraine  
Kavkazskiy Biosphere Reserve Ia 692723 Krasnodar, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea, Russia
Parco Del Somma-Vesuvio e Miglio D'Oro National Park II 33648 Italy
Riserva Regionale Fontanile Nuovo 91 Italy  

Predators

Atrococcus salviae[5]
Ovatomyzus boraginacearum[6]
Ovatus calaminthae <Unverified Name>[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 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
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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