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Lepechinia ganderi
Also called Gander's Pitcher Sage
San Diego pitchersage is a rare, aromatic native shrub from southern San Diego County and northern Baja California, grown mainly by native plant gardeners. It needs sharp drainage and sun, and tolerates dry summers once established.
Lepechinia ganderi is a rare species of perennial shrub in the mint family known by the common name San Diego pitcher sage or Gander's pitcher sage. An aromatic plant with white to lavender flowers, this species is only known from southern San Diego County in California and a small portion of Baja California, occurring on chaparral or coastal sage scrub in metavolcanic soils. Because of its limited range, it is under threat from growing urbanization and increased fire frequency.
This species is a near-endemic to southern San Diego County, California and the neighboring border region of Baja California. It is known from around 20 occurrences in the United States, many on federal land. The Mexican populations are not well studied. It is distributed throughout the coastal Peninsular Range foothills and mountains in this area, including Otay Mountain and the Jamul Mountains.
Woodbalm · Santa Ana pitchersage · Island pitchersage · Pakaha · Lepechinia leucophylloides · Lepechinia mutica · Lepechinia paniculata · Ross' pitcher sage · Lepechinia rufocampi · Pitchersage
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lepechinia ganderi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
