Garden Display Plant Guide

Botanical Name

Salvia Leaucantha

Common Name

Mexican Bush Sage

This sage is most noted for producing a very attractive late summer to frost bloom of showy bicolor flowers consisting of white corollas and longer-lasting funnel-form purple calyces. Flowers appear in dense, arching, terminal spikes (racemes to 10” long) that extend above the foliage. Flowers are attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Linear, lance-shaped, gray-green leaves (to 4” long) are borne in pairs on square stems. Foliage has a velvet-like texture, hence the sometimes used common name of velvet sage for this species.

USDA Zone: Zones 8 – 10
Sunset Zone: Zones 8, 9, 12 – 24
Mature Height: 2 – 3 feet
Mature Width: 2 – 3 feet
Light Needs: Full Sun
Water Needs: Low