The difference between vervain and sage

Verbena, also known as purple-top dragon bud grass, wild schizonepeta, dragon bud grass, phoenix neck grass, perennial upright herbs, native to Europe, most grow in the wilderness. Sage also known as sage, Japanese purple sage, common sage, southern salvia miltiorrhiza, stone see through, evergreen small aromatic plants, let's take a look at the difference between verbena and sage!

Verbena and sage are different families and genera.

1. Verbena: Verbena is a perennial upright herb in the plant kingdom, Angiosperms, Dicotyledonous Plants, Synpetalae, Tubulales, Verbenaceae, Verbenae, Verbena.

2. Salvia: Salvia is an annual herb of the plant kingdom, Angiosperms, Angiosperms, Dicotyledoneae, Synpetalae, Tubulariales, Tubulariales, Labiatae, Wild Sesaminae, Salvia and Salvia.

Morphological differences between verbena and sage

1. Verbena: Verbena is up to 120 cm high, lignified at the base, simple opposite, ovate to long ovate, both sides are hairy, and the hair on the lower veins is especially dense. Terminal or axillary spikes, flowers blue-purple, sessile, calyx membranous, tubular, corolla slightly bilabiate, filaments extremely short. Ovary glabrous, fruit enclosed in calyx, nutlets, flowering and fruiting 6 - 10 months.

2. Sage: Sage stems erect, 40~60 cm high, obtusely quadrangular, grooved, sparsely villous or nearly glabrous along the ribs. The lower leaves of stem are bipinnate compound leaves, abdomen concave and convex, sparsely villous or glabrous, and the upper leaves of stem are bipinnate compound leaves. Cymes 2 - 6-flowered, forming elongated racemes or branched racemes, inflorescences terminal. Corolla reddish, lilac, pale blue to white, outside densely villous, crown tube straight, tubular. Nutlets elliptic, brown, smooth, flowering June to September.

The difference between verbena and sage

1. Verbena: Verbena is native to Europe and often grows on roadsides, hillsides, streams or forests at low to high altitudes. It is distributed in temperate to tropical areas all over the world. It is distributed in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Xizang, etc.

2. Sage: Sage is native to southern Europe and Mediterranean coastal areas. It is born on hillsides, roadsides, shaded grass, waterside and under shade. It mainly grows in Zhejiang, southern Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places in China.

The difference between verbena and sage

1. Verbena: Verbena is used as medicine, bitter in taste, cool in nature, entering liver and spleen meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, activating blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis, diuresis and detumescence. It can cure fever, damp-heat jaundice, edema, dysentery, malaria, diphtheria, laryngitis, gonorrhea, amenorrhea, acupuncture, carbuncle sore poison, dental caries and other diseases.

2, sage: sage bitter, spicy, flat, European traditional hospitals use sage essential oil to disinfect the ward, because there is also the effect of promoting hormone operation, so women will use sage to reduce breast milk secretion after childbirth, but also has anti-aging, enhance memory, calm nerves, eyesight, relieve headache and neuralgia.