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Guatemalan Leaf Sage

Salvia cacaliifolia

Also called Blue Vine Sage

Guatemalan Leaf Sage
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0

Salvia cacaliifolia, the blue vine sage, is a sprawling Mexican and Central American perennial prized for its gentian-blue flowers from midsummer into autumn. It needs a mild climate and frost protection in cold, wet winters.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth, and water less in winter.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; does not tolerate freezing, protect below 0 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
Mexico (Oaxaca, Chiapas) to Guatemala
Climate
subtropical

About

Salvia cacaliifolia, the blue vine sage or Guatemalan sage, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, and in Guatemala and Honduras, at 1,500–2,500 m (4,921–8,202 ft) elevation. It has been available in the United Kingdom for many years, after being recognized by Irish gardener and journalist William Robinson in 1933. Since the 1970s, it has been available in the United States, after Strybing Arboretum and Huntington Botanical Gardens introduced it to California growers.

Other Salvia plants

Egyptian Sage · Mediterranean sage · White sage · Brown Sage · Santa Rosa Island sage · Buchanan's Sage · Candelabra Sage · Cayman sage · Fragrant sage · Blood sage · Chia · Yerba de la pastora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Salvia cacaliifolia 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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