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Henan Sage

Salvia honania

Henan Sage
Photo: The New York Botanical Garden, CC BY 4.0

Henan sage (Salvia honania) is an annual or biennial mint-family herb from fields and wet open ground in Henan and Hubei, China, rarely grown in gardens. It is best started from seed in cool, moist conditions.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during growth and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, moderately fertile garden soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
China (Henan, Hubei)
Climate
temperate

About

Salvia honania (Henan sage) is an annual or biennial plant that is native to fields and wet open areas in Henan and Hubei provinces in China. It grows on erect stems to 40 to 55 cm (16 to 22 in), with simple or 3-foliolate leaves. Inflorescences are widely spaced 5-9 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes or panicles.

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 honania 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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