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Clustered sage

Salvia whitehousei

Clustered sage
Photo: samlutfy https://www.inaturalist.org/people/samlutfy, CC BY 4.0

Clustered sage (Salvia whitehousei) is a low perennial subshrub from the mint family, native to dry shrubland and desert in South Texas and northeastern Mexico. It grows well in hot, dry, sunny conditions with very little water and sharp drainage.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, and let the soil dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, fast-draining soil; avoid heavy clay.
Temperature
18–40 °C; tolerates brief frosts once established but protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Texas to NE. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Salvia whitehousei, the clustered sage, is a herbaceous perennial that is native to Texas.

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 whitehousei 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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