Question: i'm sorry to keep pestering you, but here is a salvia growing on my family's land along the connecticut river. …
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Question
i'm sorry to keep pestering you, but here is a salvia growing on my family's land along the connecticut river. it appears to be a Salvia of some kind, but i couldn't find this one anywhere. by the way, i answer many of the same kind of questions you get everyday, but here in California, where i now live [and have become a professional of sorts too].
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Dear ho2cultcha, your plant is Teucrium canadense (American germander). If you look closely, you'll note that the flowers in the picture do not have a well-developed upper lip, but only a lower lip is present (the upper lip is displaced in this genus so that it appears to be two small lateral lobes, one on each side). Great photograph. Best wishes.
