Salvia rosmarinus
Garden Rosemary, Moorwort, Rosemary, Marós
Description
A shrubby perennial, evergreen and aromatic plant, prized for its foliage with its unmistakable intense fragrance used in both culinary and phytotherapeutic applications. Also perfect as an ornamental plant for its blue-purple spring blossom. With bushy or prostrate-recumbent habit, depending on the variety, it has abundant branching. Widely adaptable, it can be grown in flowerbeds, open fields as well as in pots and outdoor tubs, preferring sunny exposures and a warm temperate climate.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Salvia
- Species
- Salvia rosmarinus
Synonyms (12)
- Rosmarinus angustifolius
- Rosmarinus flexuosus
- Rosmarinus latifolius
- Rosmarinus laxiflorus
- Rosmarinus ligusticus
- Rosmarinus officinalis
- Rosmarinus palaui
- Rosmarinus prostratus
- Rosmarinus rigidus
- Rosmarinus serotinus
- Rosmarinus tenuifolius
- Salvia fasciculata
