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Plants include Pink Melaleuca, Red and Green Kangaroo Paw, among others. The Desert Garden is located near the hilltop and exhibits desert trees and succulents such as cacti, euphorbias and aloes. Some are native to Southern California, while others are endemic to Mexico, South Africa, and other desert regions of the world.
Salvia funerea, is a species of semi-deciduous perennial shrub with the common names Death Valley sage, woolly sage, and funeral sage, is an intricately branched shrub associated with limestone soils in the Mojave Desert in California and Nevada. [1] It is characterized by an overall white appearance due to wooly hairs that cover the stems and ...
Salvia azurea, the azure blue sage, [3] azure sage, blue sage or prairie sage, is a herbaceous perennial in the genus Salvia that is native to Central and Eastern North America. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Description
Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, with the number of species estimated to range from 700 to nearly 3,000. Members include shrubs , herbaceous perennials , and annuals .
The plant has many woody stems and very heavy with foliage that break easily in wind and rain. The heart-shaped leaves are mid-green, very aromatic, and graduated in size. The large flowers grow up to 1.5 in (3.8 cm) long, and are a vivid orange-red, held in a 1.5 in (3.8 cm) yellow-green calyx tinged with purple glands. They grow abundantly in ...
Salvia candelabrum is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, [2] native to southern Spain. It is a woody-based perennial growing to 100 cm (39 in), with woolly grey-green leaves that resemble those of the common sage, S. officinalis, and emit a similar scent when crushed. In summer it bears violet-blue flowers on branching stems ...
Salvia pentstemonoides (Big red sage) is a herbaceous perennial that is rare in nature and native to only a few locations in Texas, including the Edwards Plateau. The plant remains endangered due to destruction of habitat and browsing by deer. The severe Texas drought of the 1950s may have contributed to its decline. [1]
The calyx is 12–15 mm, very sticky and often purple or violet, and broadly obovate to campanulate in shape, [2] those plants common in cultivation have an unusual dark brownish red color. [1] The flower has a gap between the two lips, described by the specific epithet, hians, which means 'gaping', [1] with the lower lip larger than the upper.