Common name: Woolly Sage
Botanical name: Salvia lanata Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Woolly Sage is a white-woolly-haired perennial of drier areas,
growing only less than a foot high. Leaves are only at the base,
narrow, oblong-lancelike, without a stalk. The leaves are also densely
white-woolly beneath. Blue flowers occur in many separated whorls, in
a spike at the end of the stem. Sepals are sticky hairy. Sepals 2.5 cm
long, 2-lipped. Occurs at altitudes of 1500-3000 m. Flowering April-June.
| Photographed in Mukhteshwar, Uttarakhand. |
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