- Scientific Name: Phlomis fruticosa L.
- Ref: Sp. Pl.:584. 1753
- Synonyms: Beloakon luteum Raf., Phlomis angustifolia Mill., P. collina Salisb., P. latifolia Mill., P. portae A.Kern. ex Nyman, P. salviifolia
- Stokes, P. scariosa C.Presl
- English Common Name: Jerusalem sage
- Chinese Common Name: 橙花糙苏 chénghuā cāosū
- Japanese Common Name: フロミス furomisu, エルサレム・セージ erusaremuseiji, キバナキセワタ [黄花着せ綿] kibanakisewata
- Family: Lamiaceae
- Genus: Phlomis
- Distribution: Cultivated in Shaanxi [Russia; Africa, SW Asia, Europe]
- Photo: 04/19/2013, Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai
Stems woody, 25-45 cm tall, gray, densely appressed stellate tomentose; branches spreading. Petiole of basal stem leaves 1-2.5 cm; upper stem leaves sessile, ovate, corrugate, with simple and pilose stellate hairs adaxially, densely gray-white stellate tomentose abaxially, base rounded-cuneate, shallowly crenate. Verticillasters 10-15-flowered, 1 or 2 inserted at apex of stems; bracts oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 1.0-1.4 cm × 2-4 mm, appressed to flowers, sparsely ciliate inside, stellate tomentose and densely ciliate near margin outside. Calyx 1.5-1.7 cm, densely stellate tomentose and with simple hairs outside; teeth 1.5-2.5 mm, apex subtruncate, with spines ca. 1.5 mm. Corolla orange, densely orange stellate villous outside, ca. 2 × as long as calyx, upper lip shorter than lower lip, orange pubescent on inside margin near apex; middle lobe of lower lip broadly ovate, emarginate; lateral lobes lanceolate. Posterior filaments with a long, oblique, reflexed appendage at base and far above hairy annulus of corolla tube inside. Nutlets glabrous. (Flora of China)
