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DescriptionAPI Introduced, cool season to yearlong green, perennial, aromatic herb to 70 cm tall (usually less than 50 cm). It initially form a basal rosette of leaves and eventually produces upright stems from a tough underground rootstock. Stems are hairy and four-angled; hairs on the upper parts of stems are often sticky. Leaves are paired, 2.5-10 cm long and variable in shape; with irregularly toothed to lobed or deeply-divided margins. Flowerheads are thyrse-like, once-branched basally, with groups of 6–10 flowers per pair of bracts. Flowers are purple, blue, or pink flowers, almost stalkless, tubular and separating into two lobes near their tips. Flowering is mostly in spring, but also in autumn. A native of northern Africa, western and southern Europe and western Asia, it is a weed of pastures, grasslands, woodlands, open forests, lawns, parks, footpaths, roadsides and other disturbed areas. It is regarded as an environmental weed. Date 8 November 2014, 11:41 Source Salvia verbenaca plant5 QNR Author Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia