Salvia tiliifolia Vahl

Lindenleaf sage (en), Sauge à feuilles de tilleul (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Salvia

Characteristics

Annual herb 0.4-0.6 m tall; stems sparingly pilose, simple or branched. Leaves petiolate; blade soft, broadly ovate, 40-60 x 35-50 mm, green, sparingly pubescent, apex acuminate, base truncate, finely and regularly crenulate. Inflorescence simple or paniculate, of many fairly closely placed verticils; verticils 6-14-flowered. Calyx hispidulous, ribbed, enlarging to 7 mm long in fruit; upper lip entire. Corolla blue, 5-7 mm long.
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An annual herb. It is much branched. It grows 120 cm high. The leaves are broad and oval. They are 10 cm long. They are scalloped or have teeth. The flowers are white, blue or lilac. They are in interrupted spikes 25 cm long.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.88
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Wet or dry thickets and fields, often in oak-pine forests, occasionally a weed in cultivated lands, especially coffee plantations, along streams, usually at elevations of 1,200-2,800 metres, occasionally lower.
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Wet or dry thickets and fields, often in oak-pine forests, occasionally a weed in cultivated lands, especially coffee plantations, along streams, usually at elevations of 1,200-2,800 metres, occasionally lower.
It is a subtropical plant. It suits hardiness zone 10.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 10-11

Usage

The seeds are used for drink. They are roasted and ground and added to water.
Uses medicinal
Edible seeds
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 10 - 17
Germination temperacture (C°) 20 - 23
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment stratification
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Salvia tiliifolia leaf picture by Montuy Gabriel (cc-by-sa)
Salvia tiliifolia leaf picture by Franc G C (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Salvia tiliifolia flower picture by kings _k (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Salvia tiliifolia world distribution map, present in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:457397-1
WFO ID wfo-0000302474
COL ID 79GJH
BDTFX ID 118538
INPN ID 717527
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Salvia fimbriata Salvia tiliifolia Salvia obvallata Salvia tiliifolia var. tiliifolia