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not marked as a favorite taxon Salvia urticifolia Linnaeus. Common name: Nettle-leaf Sage. Phenology: Apr-Jun; May-Jul. Habitat: Woodlands and glades, usually over mafic or calcareous rocks. Distribution: N. VA (and allegedly MD and s. PA) west to w. KY (and allegedly a single county in IN), south to SC, c. GA, c. AL, and nw. MS. Records from further south (sw. GA, Panhandle FL, s. AL, and ec. MS) represent S. chapmanii.

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Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: See discussion of this and the related S. chapmanii in Keener & Diamond in Weakley et al. (2018a).

Other Comments: Quite showy when in flower.

Synonymy ⓘ: = S, Keener & Diamond (2018) in Weakley et al (2018a); = n/a — Pa; < Salvia urticifolia L. — C, F, G, K4, RAB, Va, W, WH3. Basionym: Salvia urticifolia L. 1753

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image #1 of Salvia urticifolia© Will Stuart | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Salvia urticifolia© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Salvia urticifolia© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
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image #5 of Salvia urticifolia© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image #6 of Salvia urticifolia© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #8 of Salvia urticifolia© Grant Morrow Parkins | Original Image ⭷
image #9 of Salvia urticifolia© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #12 of Salvia urticifolia© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image #13 of Salvia urticifolia© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect perennial from a thick rhizome found in woodlands and glades, usually over mafic or calcareous rocks.

Stems: Stems square, slippery-hairy and sometimes woody at the base.

Leaves: Leaves numerous, opposite, oval to diamond-shaped, the wedge-shaped base tapering to wings, coarsely toothed toward the tip but entire toward the base.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in whorls along a spike-like raceme to 8 in. long; violet to blue; bilaterally symmetric; tubular and with 2-lips, the lower lip showy and cleft into 2 lobes and with prominent white markings. The tubular calyx is also 2-lipped and with prominent nerves.

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Height: 6-30 in.

plant sale text: Nettleleaf sage is a wonderful native sage that is not usually offered for sale. Nettleleaf Sage is often found growing at dry woods edge, open woods and over outcroppings. It prefers a more basic soil, though is happy in average garden soil, and part-sun to dappled shade. It does not like moist, rich soil. With spikes of purple flowers with white-throats, and its small size, it would be perfect along the edge of a part-shade garden.

bloom table text:

description: Erect perennial from a thick rhizome found in woodlands and glades, usually over mafic or calcareous rocks.

stems: Stems square, slippery-hairy and sometimes woody at the base.

leaves: Leaves numerous, opposite, oval to diamond-shaped, the wedge-shaped base tapering to wings, coarsely toothed toward the tip but entire toward the base.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in whorls along a spike-like raceme to 8 in. long; violet to blue; bilaterally symmetric; tubular and with 2-lips, the lower lip showy and cleft into 2 lobes and with prominent white markings. The tubular calyx is also 2-lipped and with prominent nerves.

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cultural notes:

germination code: 2

native range: southeastern U.S.



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