Meadow Clary Flower | Slide Mouse

This salvia meadow sage has wrinkled leaves and forms an upright clump 28 inches tall and 12 inches wide.

Meadow clary flower. Meadow sage is often cultivated in containers and gardens. The herb requires a chilling period of at least three months to produce flowers and is not a good performer in hot climates for this reason. Its flowers range in color from pale lavender to deep purple. It blooms from early summer to autumn.

Find help information on salvia pratensis meadow clary from the rhs. Distribution meadow clary declined before 1950 mainly due to loss of grazing and the resulting smothering by coarser plants and is still declining now only found as a native population at 21 locations mainly in oxfordshire the north and south downs and the chilterns. Meadow clary is also reported to be a deer resistant plant which. It is now threatened with extinction in the uk as their habitats are disappearing but our millennium seed bank is helping to save this blue beauty.

The seeds were once used as an eyewash to clear infection. It has wrinkled leaves and forms an upright clump 3 feet tall by 1 foot wide. These flowers are alive with bees and butterflies on sunny summer days and are frequently visited by hummingbirds. The plant may spread by seed but volunteer seeding is usually minimal.

Flower close up salvia pratensis the meadow clary 1 or meadow sage is a species of flowering plant in the family lamiaceae native to europe western asia and northern africa. Also known as meadow clary or meadow sage this woody stemmed perennial produces sticky spikes of deep brilliant blue flowers. This woody stemmed perennial produces sticky spikes of deep violet or rarely white to pink flowers. This handsome plant has striking blue flowers in a spike on the stem and pleasantly aromatic leaves when crushed.

The re blooming is most reliable if spent flowers are deadheaded promptly. Find help information on salvia pratensis meadow clary from the rhs. Meadow clary is very showy during its bloom phase. Reblooming is most reliable if spent flowers are deadheaded promptly.

The specific epithet pratensis refers to its tendency to grow in meadows. The spent flowers drop neatly off and new buds at the top of the bloom spikes open in succession for many weeks. A perennial for sunny sites. It attracts bees and butterflies.

It has been used as an herbal remedy in the treatment of sore eyes and throat. They have paired simple or pinnately lobed often aromatic leaves and 2 lipped flowers in whorls forming simple or branched spikes or racemes. Native of calcareous grassland. Meadow sage is deer resistant and drought tolerant.