Common sage
Common sage (Salvia officinalis) is a small evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers that grows in southern Europe and the Mediterranean region.
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It is much cultivated as a kitchen and medicinal herb, and is also called Garden sage, Kitchen sage, and Dalmatian sage. In southern Europe similar species are sometimes cultivated for the same purpose, and may be confused with the common sage.
It likes warm, quite dry soil with some shade but it will grow in almost any garden soil. It can live through winter but after three to five years the plant is past its best and should be replaced.
Common Sage Media
Painting from Koehler's Medicinal Plants (1887)
Sage being gathered in a scene from the Tacuinum Sanitatis
The top side of a sage leaf – trichomes are visible.
A specimen of Salvia officinalis grown in a flowerpot
Sage seeds are very small and almost spherical in shape.
Salvia officinalis Berggarten
Salvia officinalis 'Icterina'. Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid.
Un cespo di salvia purpurea
Species: Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor' *Family: Lamiaceae Image No. 4
Related pages
References
- The Herb Society of America New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses,i like herbs Deni Bown (New York: DK, 2001)
- A Modern Herbal Mrs M Grieves (Surrey, UK: Merchant, 1973)
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