Common Sage (Salvia officinalis) Profile
Common Sage, scientific name Salvia officinalis, is an aromatic plant of the genus Common Sage in the Lamiaceae, having woody stems, grayish-green leaves, and blue to purplish-blue flowers. Native to southern Europe and Mediterranean coastal areas. Common Sage has many different uses and benefits, and some of the same plants have the same benefits. Common Sage is often grown as a kitchen herb or as a medicinal herb.
Fruit: The Common Sage fruit is a nut, the nutlet is nearly spherical, about 0.25cm in diameter, dark brown, smooth.
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Common Sage Picture
Common Sage Characteristics
Common Sage Stem
Common Sage is a perennial herb, roots woody; Stem is erect, woody at base, four-edged, white tomentose, much branched.Common Sage Leaves
Leaf blade of Common Sage is oblong or elliptic or ovoid, 1 -- 8 cm long and 0.6 -- 3.5 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, rarely acute, base rounded or sub truncate, margin with small round teeth, hard paper, two masks finely wrinkled, covered with white pubescent; Petiole of Common Sage is 3 cm to subsessile, recumbent, densely white pubescent.Common Sage Flowers
Common Sage cymes have 2 to 18 flowers, consisting of racemes with terminal growth of 4 to 18 cm; Farthest bract are leaflike, distally broadly ovate, apex acuminate, base rounded, sessile, longer than calyx, sparsely short tomentose or ciliate; Pedicels of Common Sage are ca. 0.3 cm, densely white tomentose with inflorescence rachis; Calyx of Common Sage likes bell, and the flowering time of 1-1.1 cm, results, as long as 1.5 cm, outside on the edge of the pulse and a short nap, more than with golden brown glandular dots, many with purple, inside with micro hard hairs, two lip, a few cracks to central, upper lip shallow crack into 3 teeth, tooth cone tip, the tooth is small, lower lip split in two and a half teeth, teeth triangular, apex acuminate;Corolla purple or blue, 1.8 1.9 cm long, was a short nap, above the lip is dense, inside is about 0.3 cm from crown cylinder base level to incomplete thin soft plush ring, crown tube length, 0.9 cm long, on the meyeri gradually increased, to the throat is about 0.7 cm wide, crown canopy two lip, upper lip straight, ovoid, ca. 0.6 cm long, 0.55 cm wide, apex slightly concave, lower lip with a wide width of about 1 cm, lobes in the heart, 0.5 cm long, 0.8 cm wide, apex rounded emarginate, lateral lobes ovoid, apex sharp, From the afterveins extending upward into a small tip, about 0.3 cm wide; Common Sage can produce 2 stamens, extending to the upper lip, hidden, filaments flat, about 0.5 cm long, diaphragms about 0.3 cm long, the upper and lower arms of the same length, the lower chamber is small, united with each other; Style of Common Sage is extruded, apex unequal 2-lobed, posterior lobes short; Disk of Common Sage is slightly enlarged anteriorly.Fruit: The Common Sage fruit is a nut, the nutlet is nearly spherical, about 0.25cm in diameter, dark brown, smooth.