Salvia aurea

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   shrub

Height: 3 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3. to 5 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5.
Width: 3 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer, early fall, mid fall, late fall
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Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 9 to 11
Flower features: orange, yellow
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Read about Salvia aurea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Salvia aurea, Linn. Shrub, 3 ft. or more high, white-tomentose: lvs. 1/2- 1 in. long, petiolate, ovate-sub- rotund, obtuse, entire or sinuate, leathery, hoary; floral lvs. sessile, villous, persistent: racemes dense, 2-4 in. long, somewhat branched; floral whorls 2-fld., approximate; calyx broad-campanulate, villous, the lips membranous dilated, veined, and colored, the lobes ovate-rotundate; corolla very beautiful, golden yellow, the galea somewhat falcate. July. S. Afr.—Intro. into Calif. According to one grower the fls. are at first sulfur-yellow turning very quickly to a rusty color.


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