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|common_name=Mexican bush sage, Velvet sage
 
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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>
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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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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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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  -->
 
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