Salvia chionophylla

Salvia chionophylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Salvia
Species: S. chionophylla
Binomial name
Salvia chionophylla
Fernald

Salvia chionophylla is a low-growing evergreen perennial native to a small area in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. First described in 1907 by Merritt Lyndon Fernald, it was only seen in horticulture beginning around 1996. It is a trailing plant that spreads by rooting at its nodes, producing more trailing stems, with small rounded dove-gray leaves about .5 in long, evenly spaced along the stem. The small blue flowers are less than .25 in long on short inflorescences with whorls of 2-6 flowers.[1]

Notes

  1. Clebsch, Betsy; Barner, Carol D. (2003). The New Book of Salvias. Timber Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-88192-560-9.
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