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  • COMMON NAME: Egyptian sage
  • ARABIC: نعيم، خيذامه، شجرة الغزال، رغل
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Salvia aegyptiaca L.
  • SYNONYMS: Melissa perennis
  • FAMILY: LAMIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fodder (F) Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP). It is edible and could suffer from selective grazing.
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/salvia_aegyptiaca.htm Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Moderately salt tolerant, several known folk medicinal uses. Nutlets are used in a drink to treat diarrhea and piles.

Dwarf, woody base, much branched shrublet, up to 30 cm high. Branches rigid, divaricate, hairy. Leaves rigid, 1-3 cm long, 4-12 mm broad, subsessile, linear-lanceolate, acute, wrinkled, rugose, hairy, nerves and veins prominent, gland-dotted below. Flowers in rather distant verticillasters toward end of the branches. Calyx 5-8 mm long, growing in fruit, glandular hairy, with accuminate, purplish, unequal teeth. Corolla pale-mauve or pinkish-violet, spotted, about 1.5 times as long as the calyx, with lower lip longer than the upper. Fruit 2-2.5 mm long, nutlets oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, bluish0black. 

Flowering from February to May.
Sandy soil and rocky places.
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