Salvia farinacea

Plant Characteristics

Habit		herbaceous
Height:	⇕	36 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36. to 48 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 48.
Width:	⇔	24 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 24.
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	sun
Features:	✓	flowers, hummingbirds, butterflys
USDA Zones:		9 to 11
Flower features:	❀	blue, purple, white

Scientific Names

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Salvia farinacea (Mealy sage, Mealycup sage) is a herbaceous perennial native to Mexico and parts of the United States including Texas. Violet-blue spikes rest on a compact plant of typically narrow salvia-like leaves, however, the shiny leaves are what set this species apart from a more most other Salvia, which bear velvety-dull leaves. This plant requires full or part-sun and will grow to 18" or more with good soil. This plant will attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

Read about Salvia farinacea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Salvia farinacea, Benth. Perennial, 2-3 ft. high: st. herbaceous, erect, tomentose: lvs. petiolate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, rather obtuse, irregularly serrate-crenate, rather glabrous, both surfaces green or the lower canescent: floral lvs. small, deciduous: racemes elongated, simple; floral whorls many-fld., subsecund, remote or the uppermost approximate; calyx subsessile, tubular, purplish colored, densely white-lanate; corolla purple or violet, the tube scarcely exserted. Summer. Texas, where it is reported as growing in rich soil.—A showy frequently cultivated species, the fls. quite attractive, the darker corollas being set off by the mealy lighter violet-white calices. Var. alba, Hort., is a white-fld. form with the midlobe of the lower corolla-lip obcordate, 2-lobed. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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