1619 Salvia pratensis L.

This variable species is considered to originate from C. and partly S. Europe from where it has been introduced as a medicinal and ornamental plant into England and Fennoscandia. There it has occasionally escaped from cultivation. It has also been introduced into N. America. There are closely related taxa in SE. Europe, Asia Minor and Caucasus. Cf. also Meusel et al. 1978, map p. 381.