Salvia austriaca
Flowers of the Austrian sage (Salvia austriaca )
The Austrian sage (Salvia austriaca ) is a member of the mint family ( Lamiaceae).
Description
The Austrian sage is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height of 60 to 80 (rarely 50 to 100 ) cm. The stems are densely hairy and shaggy bear glandular hairs, but are not sticky. The stems are erect, branched and usually do not wear only one pair of true leaves.
The basal leaves are flat on the floor, have a one to five centimeters long stem and a three to ten (rarely 12) cm long leaf blade. The leaf blade is four to eight (rarely nine ) inches wide, ovoid, reticular - pitted and not serrated regularly. The leaf blade is bald on the top, only hairy on the underside on the nerves. The stem leaves are sessile, pinnate and two to five inches long. Sometimes they missed. The leaf base is cordate or rounded.
Inflorescence and flowers
The flowers are up to fourth- tenth ( often only two ) in Scheinquirlen. The bracts are herbaceous, pubescent and glandular hairy. The lower bracts are pinnate, above they are entire, ovate and seven to 10 millimeters long.
The calyx is bell-shaped, has a length of eight to ten millimeters and also densely hairy and glandular. At the upper lip the cup teeth are short and of equal length. The crown is 15 to 20 ( rarely 12 ) mm long and yellowish white in color. The corolla tube is hardly longer than the calyx and the inside does not have a hair ring. The upper lip is slightly curved. The crown is set with dark red glandular hairs. The stamens protrude far from the corolla tube. They have very long Konnektivschenkel and are straddling. Bloom time is May to September.
The partial fruits are about three millimeters long and have an ellipsoidal shape.
Dissemination and locations
The Austrian sage has a Pontic- Pannonian area of distribution ( steppes north of the Black Sea - Hungarian Plain ). In Austria, it occurs only in the Pannonian region of Northern Burgenland, Vienna and Lower Austria and is considered here as endangered.
It occurs in pasture dry grasslands and sparse bushes and is limited to the amount colline level.
Documents
- Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil Fitschen - interactive ( CD -Rom ), Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2001/2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6
- M. A. Fischer, K. Oswald, W. Adler: Exkursionsflora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol. 3rd edition, Upper Austria, Biology Centre of the Upper Austrian Provincial Museum, Linz 2008, ISBN 978-3-85474-187-9