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Phlomis fruticosa
Also called Jerusalem Sage, Jerusalem Lampwick
Jerusalem sage is a small evergreen shrub with grey-green, wrinkled, aromatic leaves and whorls of deep yellow tubular flowers in summer. It grows best in full sun and well-drained soil, and tolerates a wide range of soils.
Phlomis fruticosa, the Jerusalem sage, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Albania, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Montenegro and Turkey.
It is a small evergreen shrub, up to 1 m (3 ft) tall by 1.5 m (5 ft) wide. The sage-like, aromatic leaves are oval, 5–10 cm (2-4ins) long, wrinkled, grey-green with white undersides, and covered with fine hairs. Deep yellow, tubular flowers, 3 cm in length, grow in whorls of 20 in short spikes in summer.
Goldleaf Lampwick · Large Flowered Lampwick · Longleaf Lampwick · Turkish Sage · Jerusalem sage
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phlomis fruticosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
