Family ²

Lamiaceae

Description ³

Evergreen shrub that grows up to 1 to 1.5 m tall and wide. Leaves are a light green in the spring, turning grayish-white as they mature, with graceful branches that arch to the ground, sometimes rooting when they touch the ground. Flowers grow in tight whorls on 15 to 20 cm long inflorescences, with a pinkish-purple flowering stem. The 2.5 cm flowers are pinkish-purple, held in a purple-tinged gray calyx.

Community ²

Coastal Sage Scrub

Flowering ²

May-Jun

Garden Location ²

K

Associated species ²

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native bees (pollen / nectar) XERCES
butterflies
hummingbirds

Sources and Credits

1. (c) gillian360, all rights reserved, uploaded by gillian360
2. (c) gillian360, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
3. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_leucophylla

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Calflora
• CalPhotos
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Jepson eFlora
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• World Flora Online

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