Jerusalem Salvia / لسينة / / ورق لسان / / الحفحاف

لسان الثور / قُوَيْسَة القدس / لِسان العِجلَة / المصيص / بزاز البقرة / لسينه / قصعين مقدسي

Salvia hierosolymitana Boiss.

Leaves, Febreury. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility
Delicious
Edible part
  • Leaves
Preparation
  • Rolled leaves
Blooming period
March to May
Foraging period
January to April
Seed collection period
June to August

Description

Perenniality
Perennial
Petal colour
  • Crimson
Leaf type
  • Entire
Life form
  • Hemicryptophyte
Foliage
Deciduous

Scientifc data

Genus
Salvia
Family
Lamiaceae
Wikidata item
Q891003
GBIF Item
Salvia hierosolymitana Boiss. (6412055)
Conservation status (IUCN)
Least concern

References

  1. Imseeh Tesdell, O., Othman, A., Othman, Y., Dowani, Y., Shqeirat, R., Bamieh, Y., Tesdell, E., Khouri, S.(2018).Palestinian Wild food plants.Ramallah(English and Arabic)
  2. Houri, A., Machaka Houri, N. (2001). photographic guide to wild flowers of Lebanon. Beirut: Chemaly & Chemaly.(English and Arabic)
  3. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
  4. عراف، ش.،عمر،ر.،اسعد، ص.(1995).مساهمة في دراسة نباتات البلاد(الحلقة الاولى).ترشيحا:مركز الدراسات القروية.(عربي)
  5. Salvia hierosolymitana Boiss. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-03-23.
  6. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
  7. Crowfoot, Grace Mary Hood. From Cedar to Hyssop; a Study in the Folklore of Plants in Palestine. London, Sheldon Press; New York and Toronto, The Macmillan Co., 1932.
  8. Ali-Shtayeh, Mohammed S., Rana M. Jamous, Jehan H. Al-Shafie’, Wafa’ A. Elgharabah, Fatemah A. Kherfan, Kifayeh H. Qarariah, Isra’ S. Khdair, et al. “Traditional Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants Used in Palestine (Northern West Bank): A Comparative Study.”
  9. Hinnawi, Nadeen Sadeq Abdullah. “An Ethnobotanical Study of Wild Edible Plants in the Northern West Bank,” 2010.

Citation

Salvia hierosolymitana Boiss. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/623 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.

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