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{{SPlantbox
|familia=Lamiaceae
|familia=Lamiaceae
|genus=Salvia
|genus=Salvia
|species=clevelandii
|species=clevelandii
|taxo_author=Greene
|common_name=California blue sage, Cleveland sage
|common_name=California blue sage, Cleveland sage
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|exposure=sun
|exposure=sun
|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|features=flowers
|features=flowers, fire resistant
|flower_season=early summer, mid summer, late summer
|flower_season=early summer, mid summer, late summer
|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|min_zone=8
|min_zone=8
|max_zone=10
|max_zone=10
|image=Upload.png
|image=Salvia clevelandii 3.jpg
|image_width=240
|image_width=240
}}
}}
'''''Salvia clevelandii''''' is a species of [[Salvia|sage]] native to the coast of southern California and northern Baja California. Its common names include '''Blue sage''', '''Fragrant sage''', and '''Cleveland sage'''. This is a small, hairy, dull-green shrub native to the [[chaparral]] and [[coastal sage scrub]] plant communities of the region. It has wrinkly leather-textured leaves with tiny ridged teeth along the edges and it bears plentiful rounded inflorescences of tubular lavender to dark purple flowers with long [[stamen]]s. The fruit is a spotted [[nutlet]]. ''Salvia clevelandii'' is one of the parents of the hybrid [[Salvia 'Celestial Blue']].
==Cultivation==
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