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Salvia rubescens is an erect, herbaceous perennial from the mountains of Mérida, Venezuela, grown for its red-orange flowers from midsummer to first frost. It is a sun-loving salvia that does best in warm, frost-free conditions with well-drained soil.
Salvia rubescens is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to the state of Mérida in Venezuela. The University of California Botanical Garden had been growing it since 1993 from a plant collected that year in Venezuela, only identifying it as S. rubescens in 2001.
Salvia rubescens is an erect plant that grows 4–5 ft (1.2–1.5 m) tall, and is fully covered with mid-green ovate leaves with a sawtooth edge. The leaves grow as large as 4.5 in (11 cm) long by 3.5 in (8.9 cm) wide, and are lightly covered with hairs on both surfaces. The inflorescences grow another 1–2 ft (0.30–0.61 m) above the foliage, with flowering beginning in midsummer and lasting until the first frost. The flower stems and the calyx are both dark purple and covered with fine hairs. The 1 in (2.5 cm) flowers are a vibrant red-orange color, growing in widely spaced whorls.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Salvia rubescens 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.
