RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Dušek, Karel
A1 Dušková, Elena
A1 Smékalová, Kateřina
T1 Salvia verticillata L. in the Czech Republic - variability of morphological characteristics, seed quality and essential oil content
JF Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis
YR 2014
VO 58
IS 2
SP 61
OP 68
DO 10.11118/actaun201058020061
UL https://acta.mendelu.cz/artkey/acu-201002-0007.php
AB Lilac sage (Whorled sage), as one of the medicinal plants chosen as perspective for the recultivation of flowering meadows in the Czech Republic, was studied for the variability of its morphological characters, seed quality and content of essential oil. Seven particular populations of this genus were studied in the Czech Republic and there were found statistically significant differences in morphological characters (height and width of plants, length and width of leaves and length of inflorescences) but not in the content of the essential oil. Studied populations reached only between 0.028 and 0.072% of essential oil in dry mass and also the quality of seeds was found very low (germination between 0-52%) in the seeds from natural localities but this fact could be influenced by testing method.