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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Death Valley sage
| image =
| image_caption =
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Lamiales]]
| familia = [[Lamiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Salvia]]''
| species = ''S. funerea''
| binomial = ''Salvia funerea''
| binomial_authority = M.E. Jones
}}
'''Death Valley sage''' (''Salvia funerea''), is a spiny-leaved shrub found in washes and [[limestone]] [[canyon]] walls in the [[Death Valley]] region of [[California]]. Also known as funeral sage, it grows to approximately 60 cm in length, but can reach one meter when draping on the walls of canyons. The [[flower]]s are blue or violet in color, with the [[plant]] appearing white-woolly.
==References==
*Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 183
{{Lamiales-stub}}
[[Category:Lamiaceae]]
[[Category:Flora of North America]]
[[Category:Flora of California]]
| color = lightgreen
| name = Death Valley sage
| image =
| image_caption =
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Lamiales]]
| familia = [[Lamiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Salvia]]''
| species = ''S. funerea''
| binomial = ''Salvia funerea''
| binomial_authority = M.E. Jones
}}
'''Death Valley sage''' (''Salvia funerea''), is a spiny-leaved shrub found in washes and [[limestone]] [[canyon]] walls in the [[Death Valley]] region of [[California]]. Also known as funeral sage, it grows to approximately 60 cm in length, but can reach one meter when draping on the walls of canyons. The [[flower]]s are blue or violet in color, with the [[plant]] appearing white-woolly.
==References==
*Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 183
{{Lamiales-stub}}
[[Category:Lamiaceae]]
[[Category:Flora of North America]]
[[Category:Flora of California]]
