Sage whorled ( Latin: Salvia verticillata ) - a shrub , a species of the genus Sage ( Salvia ) of the family Lamiaceae ( Lamiaceae ).
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 Sage is whorled. The upper part of the plant. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Content
Distribution and Ecology
It is found in Eastern and Southern Europe , Turkey , Iran , Iraq , and the Caucasus [2] . On the territory of Russia it is distributed in the European part , in the Caucasus, in Western Siberia .
It grows in open garbage places, as well as on clay cliffs and limestone slopes.
Botanical Description
Rhizome with a diameter of 5-10 mm, brown, almost horizontal or obliquely ascending.
The stems are numerous, simple, less often branched , straight, 30-80 cm high, densely pubescent with multicellular hairs.
Leaves are heart-ovate, 4–13 cm long, 3–10 cm wide, sharp, leafy leaf edges edged; lower leaves on petioles of equal lamina, upper leaves short-sessile or sessile.
Inflorescences are simple or more often with one or two pairs of long branches, from 20-40-flowered false whorls ; calyx is tubular, often lilac; corolla violet, sometimes white, twice as long as calyx, two-lipped.
Nuts are roundly elliptical, light brown, sometimes dark brown, smooth, 1.5-5 mm long.
It blooms in June - September. The fruits ripen in August - September.
Meaning and Application
The aerial part of the plant contains a greenish essential oil (0.05-0.08%) with a very pungent odor.
In the 20th century, clary sage was a popular spice . Its leaves give the food a strong aroma with a specific “cool” smell. In the Caucasus, they are eaten as a seasoning for fatty meat dishes; in Western Europe and Central Asia, dry leaves are used to flavor beer , as a spicy-aromatic seasoning for cheese , ear , meat, game dishes, poultry, cold meat salads.
Good honey plant . In the period from complete pollination to fertilization, it gives abundantly easily accessible and transparent, colorless and odorless nectar ; moreover, in hot and humid weather, nectar production increases: each flower emits from 0.22 to 1.42 mg of high nectar on average (50– 86%) sugar concentration, and the total honey productivity reaches 900 kg per hectare of plantings. Honey is transparent, excellent taste. In addition to nectar, Sage whorled gives bees pollen-pollen [3] .
Classification
Taxonomy
Species Sage whorled belongs to the genus Sage ( Salvia ) of the subfamily Kotovnikovye ( Nepetoideae ) of the family Lamiaceae ( Lamiaceae ) of the order Lamiaceae ( Lamiales ).
| another 21 families (according to APG II System ) | 110-130 more births | |||||||||||||||
| the order is Lamiaceae | subfamily Kotovnikovy | view Sage whorled | ||||||||||||||
| Department of Flowering, or Angiosperms | family Lamiaceae | clan sage | ||||||||||||||
| 44 more order flowering plants (according to APG II System ) | 7 more subfamilies (according to APG II System ) | another 700 - 900 species | ||||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ According to the GRIN website (see plant card).
- ↑ Abrikosov H.N. et al. Sage // Dictionary of the beekeeper / Comp. Fedosov N.F .. - M .: Selkhozgiz, 1955. - P. 402.
Literature
- Flora of the USSR : in 30 tons / started at hand. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1954. - T. 21 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin . - S. 310-313. - 703 s. - 3000 copies.
- Dudchenko L.G., Koziakov A.S., Krivenko V.V. Spicy-aromatic and spicy-flavoring plants: Reference book / Resp. ed. K. M. Sytnik. - K .: Naukova Dumka , 1989 .-- 304 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN 5-12-000483-0 .
- Gubanov I.A. et al. 1115. Salvia verticillata L. - Sage whorled // Illustrated identifier of plants in Central Russia. In 3 t . - M .: T-in scientific. ed. KMK, Institute of Technology. ISS., 2004. - T. 3. Angiosperms (dicotyledonous: dicotyledonous). - S. 148. - ISBN 5-87317-163-7 .