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Salvia blancoana

Salvia blancoana
Photo: Meise Botanic Garden, CC BY-SA 4.0

Salvia blancoana is a low, prostrate perennial sage from Spain and northwest Africa, with narrow blue-green leaves and pale violet-blue flowers. It is best grown in full sun with sharp drainage and little water.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Poor to moderately fertile, very well-drained, gritty or sandy mix.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established, protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Easy
Native range
E. & SE. Spain, NW. Africa
Climate
subtropical

About

Salvia blancoana is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is a prostrate perennial that is native to Spain and northwest Africa. It has narrow blue-green leaves and pale violet-blue flowers. Due to its being highly variable in the wild, and because of similarities to Salvia candelabrum and Salvia officinalis subsp. lavandulifolia (syn. S. lavandulifolia), it has often been confused with those two. Current opinion gives S. blancoana distinct species status, even while some botanists consider it a subspecies of its two close relatives. It differs from S. officinalis subsp. lavandulifolia and S. candelabrum in being prostrate, as opposed to merely low-growing. It also has whorls of 2–6, compared to 6–9 in S. officinalis subsp. lavandulifolia.

Other Salvia plants

Turkish Black Sage · Wuyi Mountain Sage · Salvia adoxoides · Egyptian Sage · Orange Sage · Mediterranean sage · African Blue Sage · Salvia alatipetiolata · Cederberg Sage · Handsome Sage · Algerian Sage · Salvia amethystina

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Salvia blancoana 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.

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