SAGE CLARY

Salvia sclarea, large, hairy, basal leaves with white-pink-bluish flowers, 24", June-August. Grown commercially for it's essential oil for the perfume industry. Some key uses you may be familiar with are: used to flavor the "bubbly" Muscatel wine, an extract is used to flavor cigarette tobacco, and medicinal it can help just about any ailment. Grows in lousy soils as well as good ones. In good soil this can become behemoth. Sun, drained. zone4-9. "Clary Sage"