5. Stachys floridana Shuttlew. 



Plant spreading by means of elongate sometimes branching tubers; stem to 

 about 4 dm. high, hirsute; leaves elliptic to ovate, serrate or dentate, 1-4 cm. 

 long, the middle and lower blades shorter to slightly longer than their petioles; 

 calyx 5-7 mm. long, puberulent, the lobes lanceolate; corolla 1-1.3 cm. long, the 

 lower lip as long as the tube; cocci 1.5 mm. long or rarely smaller. 



In wet sandy soils and in marshes, in s.e. Tex. (Tyler Co.), Mar.-June; from 

 Fla. to Tex., n. to N.C. 



10. Salvia L. Sage 



Shrubs or herbs of varied habits, often aromatic; flowers commonly large and 

 showy, in interrupted spikes or terminal heads; calyx bilabiate, usually somewhat 

 laterally compressed, the upper lip commonly entire but sometimes 3-toothed or 

 3-mucronate, the lower lip usually 2-toothed; corolla mostly blue, red or white, 

 tubular, strongly bilabiate, the upper lip either plane and emarginate or galeate 

 and entire; stamens 2, exserted from the corolla tube beyond the limb or contained 

 within the galea, the connective strongly developed, often more prominent than 

 the filament, bearing a single terminal anther sac, either straight or projected 

 back into the corolla tube, sometimes geniculate; style usually exserted from the 

 galea or beyond the upper lip; cocci smooth. 



About 700 species distributed throughout the world but mostly in temperate and 

 tropical regions, centered in South America. 



1. Corolla violet-color or light-blue, 2-3 cm. long; leaves subentire to lyrate- 

 pinnatifid; widespread in eastern Texas and less so in eastern Okla- 

 homa 1. S. lyrata. 



1. Corolla crimson, about 4 cm. long; leaves entire or obscurely denticulate; 



endemic to Edwards Plateau in central Texas 



2. S. penstemonoides. 



1. Salvia lyrata L. Cancer-weed, lyre-leaf sage. 



Rosulate perennial from a somewhat tuberous root, more or less pilose through- 

 out, the scapiform stem to 8 dm. high or more; basal obovate to oblanceolate 

 leaves petioled, membranaceous, the vernal ones sinuate to repand or lyrate- 

 pinnatifid and to 3 dm. long, those of summer and autumn (holding over winter) 

 mostly subentire, usually sparsely strigose-hirsute, often purple-tinged; scape naked 

 or with 1 or 2 pairs of small leaves, simple or with virgate branches; whorls of 

 flowers 3 to 10, becoming distant; floral bracts oblong-linear, mostly shorter than 

 the calyx; calyx campanulate, membranaceous, to 12 mm. long at maturity, the 

 broad upper lip truncate and with 3 widely separated teeth, the lower lip with 2 

 longer lanceolate cuspidate-pointed teeth; corolla violet or light-blue with darker 

 blue markings, 2-3 cm. long, ampliate-funnelform, exserted, its straight upper lip 

 much shorter than the broad lower one; both forks of connective bearing fertile 

 anthers; cocci fuscous, obovoid, about 2 mm. long. 



Sandy open woods, wet meadows and clearings, wet grassy swampy ground, 

 gravelly alluvial soils along streams, in Okla. {Waterfall) and e. fourth of Tex., 

 Dec-May; from Fla. to Tex., n. to Conn., N.Y., N.J., Pa., W.Va., O., Ind., 

 111., Mo. and Okla. 



2. Salvia penstemonoides Kunth & Bouche. Big red sage. 



Perennial, nearly glabrous or below sparsely hirsute; stems to 15 dm. high, 

 leafy to the summit; leaves thickish, linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute 

 to acuminate and mucronate, entire or obscurely denticulate and with ciliolate- 

 scabrous margins, the midnerve prominent beneath; lower leaves 7.5-13 cm. 

 long, with long margined petioles; upper leaves gradually much smaller and be- 



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