Salvia leucophylla - Purple sage

Purple sage (Salvia leucophylla) is a three- to six-foot evergreen shrub of dry California slopes, fragrant and needing no water once established, with seed eaten by quail.¹ It grows 1-1.5 m tall and 1 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Well drained soil¹

Type

• Salvia spp. - Sage
• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Flammable²
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Wildlife habitat¹
• Attracting beneficial insects¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1-1.5
Diameter (m)	1

Footnotes

1. Salvia leucophylla, Purple Sage | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time 15 seconds ↩