Judean Sage / لسينة (الجنوب)

قصعين خليلي / قُوَيْسَة اليهودية

Salvia judaica Boiss.

Flowers, April. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0.

Edibility and Usage

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

Description

Perenniality
Perennial
Petal colour
  • Violet
Leaf type
  • Entire
Life form
  • Hemicryptophyte

Scientifc data

Genus
Salvia
Family
Lamiaceae
Wikidata item
Q2920622
GBIF Item
Salvia judaica Boiss. (3898876)

References

  1. IUCN Red List. (2021, November 20).
  2. Houri, A., Machaka Houri, N. (2001). photographic guide to wild flowers of Lebanon. Beirut: Chemaly & Chemaly.(English and Arabic)
  3. Salvia judaica Boiss. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-04-10.
  4. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
  5. Al-Qura’n, S. A. (2010). Ethnobotanical and ecological studies of wild edible plants in Jordan. Libyan Agriculture Research Center Journal International, 1(4), 231-243.
  6. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
  7. Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.

Citation

Salvia judaica Boiss. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/624 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.

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