Lanceleaf sage is a small annual subshrub of pastures and prairies in the southern and central US and Mexico, grown for its blue flowers and tolerance of dry, poor soils. It is best started from seed in a sunny, well-drained spot.
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; it tolerates drought.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor and alkaline soil.
Temperature
Hardy in warm climates; frost tender, so expect it to die back with the first hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Safety
Toxic
Native range
N. & C. U.S.A. to Mexico
Climate
subtropical
About
Salvia reflexa, the lanceleaf sage, Rocky Mountain sage, blue sage, lambsleaf sage, sage mint or mintweed, is an annual subshrub native to the United States and Mexico and introduced to Argentina, Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.
It reaches 4-28 inches (10–71 cm) in height with small, opposite, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic leaves up to two inches (5 cm) long.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Salvia reflexa 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.