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Salvia occidentalis

Botanic Family

Lamiaceae

Author

Swartz

Common Names

• Moradilla
• Verbena (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Bermuda
• Bolivia
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Galapagos Islands - Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Florida
• Virgin Islands - USA
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• riverside
• thickets
• disturbed areas
• wasteland
• coastal

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Procumbent or sometimes scandent annual or perennial, stem woody beneath. Leaves to 60mm long, crenate-serrate towards the apex. Few-flowered spikes or racemes to 300mm long, calyx to 3mm long, blue corolla 5mm long, rarely white, tube to 2.5mm long, upper lip 1.5mm long, lower lip 2.5mm long.

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Kew
• SAFIO
• Standley