Burke: Salvia dorrii vs. Salvia sclarea

	Salvia dorrii	Salvia sclarea
	gray ball sage, purple sage	cleareye
Habit	Much-branched shrubs, often broader than high, the rigid branches 2-5 dm. tall.	Coarse, spreading-hairy biennial, the stem 5-15 dm. tall, freely-branched; many of the hairs gland-tipped.
Leaves	Leaves opposite, numerous, often in bundles, silvery with a close, mealy pubescence, the blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 1.5-3 cm. long and 4-15 mm. wide, narrowed to a short petiole.	Leaves opposite, the lowermost long-petiolate, wrinkled, ovate to ovate-oblong, toothed or doubly toothed, the blade 7-20 cm. long; cauline leaves reduced upward and with shorter petioles, often few.
Flowers	Flowers in a series of dense, bracteate verticels at the ends of many of the branches; bracts broadly elliptic to obovate, purplish, 7-12 mm. long, dry, granular on the back; calyx two-lipped; corolla usually bright blue-violet, I cm. long, two-lipped, the spreading, 3-lobed lower lip much longer than the short, flat, 2-lobed upper lip; stamens 2, long-exerted; style narrow, long, 2-parted; ovary 2-celled, superior.	Branches with scattered verticels of flowers subtended by conspicuous bracts 1-3 cm. long with a tail, often dry and purplish; calyx glandular and hairy, the upper lip with bristle-tipped, lateral teeth 1.5-3 mm. long well separated from the shorter, central tooth; corolla bilabiate, blue or white, often marked with yellow, 1.5-3 cm. long, the upper lip arched, somewhat hooded, longer than the tube and 3-lobed lower lip; stamens 2, ascending under the upper lip, exerted.
Fruits	Nutlets 4	Nutlets 4.

	Salvia dorrii	Salvia sclarea
Flowering time	May-July	June-August
Habitat	Dry, open, often sandy or rocky areas in sagebrush plains and foothills.	Roadsides, fields, and other disturbed areas.
Distribution	Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to Utah and Arizona. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]	Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; occasionally escaping in parts of western, central, and eastern North America. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
Origin	Native	Introduced from Europe
Conservation status	Not of concern	Not of concern
Sibling taxa	S. aethiopis, S. nemorosa, S. pratensis, S. sclarea, S. virgata, S. yangii	S. aethiopis, S. dorrii, S. nemorosa, S. pratensis, S. virgata, S. yangii
Subordinate taxa	S. dorrii var. incana
Web links	Local floras: CA, OR, WA Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, Flora NW, PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search	Local floras: OR, WA Local Web sites: Flora NW, PNW Herbaria WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Salvia dorrii

Salvia sclarea

gray ball sage, purple sage

cleareye

Habit

Much-branched shrubs, often broader than high, the rigid branches 2-5 dm. tall.

Coarse, spreading-hairy biennial, the stem 5-15 dm. tall, freely-branched; many of the hairs gland-tipped.

Leaves

Leaves opposite, numerous, often in bundles, silvery with a close, mealy pubescence, the blade oblanceolate to elliptic, 1.5-3 cm. long and 4-15 mm. wide, narrowed to a short petiole.

Leaves opposite, the lowermost long-petiolate, wrinkled, ovate to ovate-oblong, toothed or doubly toothed, the blade 7-20 cm. long;

cauline leaves reduced upward and with shorter petioles, often few.

Flowers

Flowers in a series of dense, bracteate verticels at the ends of many of the branches;

bracts broadly elliptic to obovate, purplish, 7-12 mm. long, dry, granular on the back;

calyx two-lipped;

corolla usually bright blue-violet, I cm. long, two-lipped, the spreading, 3-lobed lower lip much longer than the short, flat, 2-lobed upper lip;

stamens 2, long-exerted;

style narrow, long, 2-parted;

ovary 2-celled, superior.

Branches with scattered verticels of flowers subtended by conspicuous bracts 1-3 cm. long with a tail, often dry and purplish;

calyx glandular and hairy, the upper lip with bristle-tipped, lateral teeth 1.5-3 mm. long well separated from the shorter, central tooth;

corolla bilabiate, blue or white, often marked with yellow, 1.5-3 cm. long, the upper lip arched, somewhat hooded, longer than the tube and 3-lobed lower lip;

stamens 2, ascending under the upper lip, exerted.

Fruits

Nutlets 4

Nutlets 4.