Salvia pachyphylla - Rose sage

Rose sage (Salvia pachyphylla) is an evergreen shrub of pine and oak woodland in California’s mountains and high desert, with silver foliage and blue flowers in showy purple bracts. It grows 0.5-1 m tall and 1-1.5 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Well drained soil¹

Type

• Salvia spp. - Sage
• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Pollination¹
• Wildlife habitat¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.5-1
Diameter (m)	1-1.5

Footnotes

1. Salvia pachyphylla, Rose Sage | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩