Salvia verbenaca Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 25. 1753.

"Habitat in Europae pascuis." RCN: 199.

Lectotype (Del Carratore & al. in Pl Biosystems 132: 173, f. 3. 1998): [icon] " Horminum syl. minus inciso folio fl. azureo" in Barrelier, Pl. Galliam: 24, t. 208. 1714.

Current name: Salvia verbenaca L. ( Lamiaceae).

Note: Hedge (in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 33: 96. 1974), followed by later authors, indicated the post-1753 42.20 (LINN) as “type”, but this collection lacks the Species Plantarum number (i.e. “13”), is a post-1753 addition to the collection, and not original material for the name. Del Carratore & al. therefore designated a Barrelier plate as lectotype.