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Mediterranean Sage (Salvia aethiopis)

Mediterranean Sage plant base.

Background

• Introduced from Europe
• Inflorescence tumbles with wind
• Produces 50 to 100,00 seeds per plant
• Associated with dry areas
• Found from grasslands to open Ponderosa Pine communities

Description

• Biennial, mature plant can reach 3 feet tall
• Leaves ovate to triangular, irregularly lobed, 4 to 12 inches long
• Stems, new leaves, and leaf lower surfaces are densely covered with fine, white woolly hairs.
• Flowering stems highly branched near the top into broad panicles with whorls of 5-10 flowers.
• Flowers white to yellowish
• Crushed leaves have sage odor.

(From The University of Idaho - College of Agricultural and Life Sciences)

Mediterranean Sage rosettes, sprayed with an identifying herbicide.

Other Web Resource Links

• invasive.org - Mediterranean Sage