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| name = ''LATINNAME'' <!--- replace LATINNAME with the actual latin name -->
|familia=Lamiaceae
| common_names = <!--- if multiple, list all, if none, leave blank -->
|genus=Salvia
| growth_habit = ? <!--- tree, shrub, herbaceous, vine, etc -->
|species=leucantha
|common_name=Mexican bush sage, Velvet sage
| wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|habit=shrub
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| exposure = ? <!--- full sun, part-sun, semi-shade, shade, indoors, bright filtered (you may list more than 1) -->
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|flower_season=early summer, mid summer, late summer
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'''''Salvia leucantha''''' ('''Mexican bush sage''') is a herbaceous perennial that is native to subtropical and tropical conifer forests in central and eastern [[Mexico]]. The flowers are usually white, emerging from coloured bracts. It is not frost hardy, but is often grown in warmer latitudes for its prominent arching velvety blue or purple [[inflorescence]]s.<ref name="Clebsch">{{cite book|last=Clebsch|first=Betsy|coauthors=Carol D. Barner|title=The New Book of Salvias|publisher=Timber Press|date=2003|page=171|isbn=9780881925609|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NM0iwB8GrQYC&pg=PA171}}</ref>
It grows up to {{convert|1.3|m|ft|1|lk=on|abbr=on}} high and {{convert|2|m|ft|1|lk=on|abbr=on}} wide, with numerous erect stems, often arching at their tips, and with long [[inflorescence]]s. The linear-lanceolate leaves are a soft mid-green, with whitish, hairy undersides.<ref name="Clebsch"/>
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Salvia leucantha, Cav. Shrub, about l 1/2-2 ft. high: st. shrubby, with elongated branches which are subterete, and white-lanate, the wool finally caducous: lvs. short-petioled, lanceolate-linear, acute, crenate, base rotundate, pubescent and rugose above, white-lanate beneath; floral lvs. ovate, acuminate, deciduous: raceme elongated, often purplish, 6-10 in. long; floral whorls many-fld., the lower remote; calyx subsessile, ovate, densely lavender- or violet-lanate; corolla white, white-lanate outside. June. Mex.—Probably not very common in cultivation, at least in N. Amer.
Salvia leucantha, Cav. Fig. 3535. Shrub, about l 1/2-2 ft. high: st. shrubby, with elongated branches which are subterete, and white-lanate, the wool finally caducous: lvs. short-petioled, lanceolate-linear, acute, crenate, base rotundate, pubescent and rugose above, white-lanate beneath; floral lvs. ovate, acuminate, deciduous: raceme elongated, often purplish, 6-10 in. long; floral whorls many-fld., the lower remote; calyx subsessile, ovate, densely lavender- or violet-lanate; corolla white, white-lanate outside. June. Mex. B.M. 4318. Gn. 21:328.—Probably not very common in cultivation, at least in N. Amer.
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==References==
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<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
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