كفّ الدِّب.

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Basal leaves large, cordate-ovate, rugose, crenate-dentate, petiolate, up to 20 × 15 cm; upper cauline leaves smaller, ovate-lanceolate, sessile to shortly petiolate. Surfaces densely hairy, glandular, strongly aromatic.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Terminal, much-branched panicles; verticillasters 2–6-flowered, subtended by large, showy, colored bracts (pink, lilac, or whitish, strongly veined). Calyx tubular, bilabiate, with spiny teeth, glandular-hairy. Corolla 20–30 mm, lilac to violet, bilabiate; upper lip erect, lower lip spreading, trilobed. Stamens 2, with long connective forming lever mechanism.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Nutlets ovoid, brown, smooth, mucilaginous when wet.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers May–July; fruits mature in summer.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Reported by Tohmé & Tohmé from Ras Baalbek, Aassi, Chlifa, Maqneh, Ghazzeh, Qoubaiyat, Rahbeh, Aachqout, Nahr ed-Dahab, Mayrouba, Ain-Trez, Deir el-Qamar, Jezzine, Zhalti, and Kaounine.

Native range: Southern and central Europe, Caucasus, western and central Asia, Iran; extending into the Levant (Lebanon–Syria, Palestine).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

500–1,500 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Biennial to short-lived perennial, aromatic, strongly pubescent with glandular and non-glandular hairs; stems erect, branched above, 60–120(–150) cm tall.

دورة الحياة

ثنائية الحول، معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Salvia sclarea

الفصيلة

شفوية

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عشبة الدم

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