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| name = ''Salvia argentea''
|familia=Lamiaceae
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|genus=Salvia
| growth_habit = ? <!--- tree, shrub, herbaceous, vine, etc -->
|species=argentea
| high = ? <!--- 1m (3 ft) -->
|taxo_author=L.
| wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->
|habit=herbaceous
| origin = ? <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc -->
|habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|Max ht box=24
| lifespan = biennial{{SCH}}
|Max ht metric=in
| exposure = ? <!--- full sun, part-sun, semi-shade, shade, indoors, bright filtered (you may list more than 1) -->
|height_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
| water = ? <!--- frequent, regular, moderate, drought tolerant, let dry then soak -->
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| features = <!--- flowers, fragrance, fruit, naturalizes, invasive -->
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|width_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|lifespan=perennial
| color = IndianRed
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|features=flowers, foliage
| regnum = Plantae <!--- Kingdom -->
|flowers=white
| divisio = <!--- Phylum -->
|Temp Metric=°F
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|min_zone=8
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|max_zone=11
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|image=Salvia argentea A.jpg
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'''''Salvia argentea''''' ('''Silver Sage''', '''Silver Salvia''' ), also known as '''Silver Clary''', is a biennial or short-lived [[perennial plant]]. It is native to northern [[Africa]]. In habit it is similar to the related European species ''[[Salvia sclarea]]'', forming a rosette of basal leaves in its first year, and flowering stems up to about 50 cm tall in its second year. Its leaves have a distinctive silvery white color (caused by numerous fine hairs), are about 8 inches long and rounded at the tip. <ref>Frances Tenenbaum. 2003</ref>
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Salvia argentea. (S. patula, Desf.). Biennial, 2-4 ft. high: sts. herbaceous, erect, villous: lvs. radical and lower cauline, 6-8 x 4-6 in., broad-ovate, sinuate- lobate, the lobes erose-crenate, lanate; floral lvs. very broad, acuminate, concave, persistent: panicles divaricate-branched; floral whorls remote, 6-10-fld., the uppermost abortive; calyx campanulate, striate, the teeth all subspinose; corolla showy, rose-white, whitish, purplish or yellowish, the galea or upper lip much longer than the lower. June. Medit. region of Eu. and Afr. F.C. 3:112. Gn. 73; p. 517. — For some reason this species is considered a hardy perennial by American seedsmen. The foliage is white-woolly, making it a very decorative plant.
Salvia argentea. (S. patula, Desf.). Biennial, 2-4 ft. high: sts. herbaceous, erect, villous: lvs. radical and lower cauline, 6-8 x 4-6 in., broad-ovate, sinuate- lobate, the lobes erose-crenate, lanate; floral lvs. very broad, acuminate, concave, persistent: panicles divaricate-branched; floral whorls remote, 6-10-fld., the uppermost abortive; calyx campanulate, striate, the teeth all subspinose; corolla showy, rose-white, whitish, purplish or yellowish, the galea or upper lip much longer than the lower. June. Medit. region of Eu. and Afr.— For some reason this species is considered a hardy perennial by American seedsmen. The foliage is white-woolly, making it a very decorative plant.
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File:Salvia argentea 14May2009 plant CampoCalatrava.jpg
File:Salvia argentea 14May2009 FlowersCloseup CampoCalatrava.jpg
File:Salvia argentea B.jpg
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==References==
==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- 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 -->
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