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Salvia azurea
Also called Blue Sage, Prairie Sage, Giant Blue Sage
Salvia azurea, the blue sage or azure sage, is a herbaceous perennial in the genus Salvia that is native to Central and Eastern North America.
Blue sage is native to the United States, but its natural range is disputed with different scholarly sources reporting different areas where it has been introduced in the US. Plants of the World Online and World Flora Online both report it as a introduced species in the northeastern U.S. in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, as well as in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin. In the book Flora of the Great Plains, botanist Ralph E. Brooks listed it as additionally introduced to eastern Colorado and western Nebraska, though native to southeastern parts of Nebraska. It is also reported to have escaped cultivation in India.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Salvia azurea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
