Seasonal Wild Flowers

Meadow Clary

Salvia pratensis

Lamiaceae

June to July

Native plants are rare and thinly scattered in the South and

Southeast.

Alien plants have a slightly extended distribution.

See the BSBI distribution map for Meadow Clary

It grows on lime in unimproved grassland, in lanes, by

roads and disturbed ground.

It is occasionally found as a casual escape from gardens.

The pictures shown are from a lane bank near Beaminster,

Dorset, and may be a casual.

Meadow Clary is a native or alien, very attractive,

long-lived perennial, hairy herb, growing up to 1m.

Flowers are violet-blue and up to 3cm.

There are 2 stamens with unequal anthers.

The style is long and arching.

The calyx is toothed and softly hairy.

Bracts are leaf-like and small.

Upper leaves are sessile, green and crinkly.

Lower leaves are stalked and much bigger, up to 15cm.

Meadow Clary, lane-bank, Dorset

Flowers - stamens and styles

Style

Stamens

Style, stamens and calyx

Whorl of calices and slightly

angled, hairy stem

Upper sessile leaves

Lower, stalked leaves

Small bracts