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Purple sage

Salvia dorrii

Also called Blue Sage, Desert Sage, Dorr's Sage, Gray Ball Sage, Mint Sage, Mintbrush, Tobacco Sage

Purple sage
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub, Perennial
Native range
W. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Salvia dorrii, the purple sage, Dorr's sage, fleshy sage, mint sage, or tobacco sage, is a perennial spreading shrub in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to mountain areas in the western United States, particularly northwestern Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas, found mainly in the Great Basin and southward to the Mojave Desert, growing in dry, well draining soils.

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Some chemical components found in Salvia dorrii include salvidorol and two epimeric abietane diterpenes.

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 dorrii 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.

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