Salvia castanea


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Plant Characteristics
Habit   herbaceous

Height: 36 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Width: 24 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 24.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
Cultivation
Exposure: sun, part-sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 7 to 11
Flower features: red, blue, purple, pink
Scientific Names

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Salvia castanea is a herbaceous perennial sage discovered in the Yunnan Valley in China in 1904 by plant collector George Forrest. It also grows in Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. The plants used in horticulture today likely came from seed collected from a plant at 14,000 in Nepal, at the base of Mt. Everest. It grows 3 ft tall in the wild, and 1-2 feet in cultivation in Europe and the U.S. The few 1-1.5 in flowers grow in whorls on an inflorescence about 1 ft long. The name castanea, which means 'chestnut colored', refers to the purplish-maroon flowers [1]

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References

  1. Clebsch, Betsy; Carol D. Barner (2003). The New Book of Salvias. Timber Press. p. 66. ISBN 9780881925609. http://books.google.com/books?id=NM0iwB8GrQYC&pg=PA66. 

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