Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Salvia verbenaca var. verbenaca
Common name
Vervain, Wild Sage
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland, grassy areas, and disturbed sites. Widespread.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb to 0.7 m tall. Stems four-angled, hairy, often sticky. Leaves aromatic when rubbed. Leaves basal and opposite each other, bases sometimes cordate, surfaces hairy to hairless, gland-dotted, margins lobed, toothed, or entire. Lower leaves 2.5-10 cm long, 15-80 mm wide, upper leaves smaller. Leaf bases squared off or cordate, margins usually irregularly toothed. Flowers more or less fragrant, blue to mauve, pink, or purple, sometimes white, 7-13 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes, in clusters of 6-10 flowers up the stem. Flowers all year.
Salvia verbenaca in PlantNET.
PlantNET description (asSalvia verbenaca): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Salvia~verbenaca (accessed 20 April 2021)
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