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Plants and Flowers: macro photography of the leaves of a sage plant

Sage, Salvia officinalis, is an important medicinal plant and a scented plant with blue flowers. It is a beautiful perennial and is also used in the kitchen as a seasoning.

Pink cleary sage blooming in a field, Valensole, Provence, France

Lyra leaf sage (Salvia lyrata). Called Wild sage and Cancerweed also.

Green Sage plant with purple flowers in the vegetable garden. Salvia officinalis in bloom

A beautiful sage plant. Shot with a Canon 5D Mark IV.

Flowers of a clary sage, Salvia sclarea.

Salvia officinalis, the common sage or just sage, is a perennial, evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers

Close-up of the head of a flowering sage

Sage, Salvia officinalis, crater plant, medicinal plants, -

$Very variable medium to tall, tufted, hairy perennial, slightly aromatic, with erect, branched stems, rather glandular above. Leaves oval to oblong with a heart-shaped base, somewhat wrinkled, deep green, the lowermost long-stalked, the upper smaller and unstalked. Flowers violet-blue, occasionally pink or white, large, 20-30mm long, in whorls of 4-6, the upper lip markedly curved; bracts green, half the length of the calyx.\nHabitat: Meadows and grassy places on calcareous soils, occasionally in waste places, to 1900m.\nFlowering Season: June-July.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe to W Asia.\n\nThis Picture is made during a long weekend in the Eifel (Germany) in June 2019.$