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Salvia bracteata
A perennial herb, somtimes a bit woody base. Plant hairy, sticky and scented. Flowers pink - browish. Flower clusters are accompanied by leafy large bracts. Mericaprs (seeds) dark brown, globular.
Open sunny areas dominated by poterium shrublets. Dry mountainous Mediterrenean to steppes. Israel to Turkey.
Extinct locally and grown at the Jerusalem Botanical gardens across the road from its last locality in Israel.
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