Salvia is the largest genus of plant in the sage family Lamiaceae , with nearly 1000 species . Salvia species admit annual , biennial , or repeated herbaceous plants , along with woody suffrutex . The stems are typically angled like other members in Lamiaceae . The leaves are typically entire , but sometimes toothed or pinnately divided . The flowering stems bear pocket-sized bracts , different to the basal leafage in some mintage the bracts are ornamental and showy .
The flowers are produced in raceme or panicles , and mostly produce a showy display with flower colors ranging from blue to red , with white and chicken less common . The calyx is normally vasiform or bell influence , without bewhiskered throats , and separate into two parts or sassing , the upper sass entire or three - toothed , the lower two - scissure . The corolla are often claw shaped and are two - lipped . The upper lip is commonly entire or three - toothed . The lower back talk typically has two lobes . The stamen are reduced to two short structures with anthers two - celled , the upper cadre prolific , and the lower continuous tense . The flower flair are two - cleft . The yield are politic ovoid or oblong nutlet and in many coinage they have a mucilaginous finish . Salvia coinage or varieties include :
Salvia elegans
Pineapple sage earn its common name from the fragrance of its broken flower and foliage . The sage has a clumping habit , growing 3 to 4 feet tall and spreading about 2 infantry , with light-green , ovate , hairy - tone leaves . In summer through capitulation , retentive blossom spikes form that fill with two - lipped scarlet flowers .
Sabra Spike Sage or Salvia confertiflora
Sabra Spike Sage is a tender perennial with lancet - shaped , scalloped , dark unripe leaves . Pungently - scented , they exude an unpleasant odor when wound . In mid - summer to frost , slender spike of small scarlet - orange tree flush rise well above the foliage . The bloom straw and flowers are covered with velvety reddish - brown hairsbreadth . The blossoms cater a welcome splash of colouration in the former - season landscape .
Red Salvia or Salvia splendens
Despite an official rough-cut name of scarlet sage , many people have-to doe with to the plants but as red salvia . It fills garden beds and patio pots each summer with its brilliant red , upright blossoms . Some cultivar propose scarlet sage with white , salmon , burgundy , lavender , pinkish , and orange flowers .
Salvia farinacea
usually bear on to as mealycup sage or Victoria blue salvia . Like other sage , mealycup salvia has the conversant fragrant , gig - shaped leaf and spikes of colorful lobed blossom . However , the leaves of mealycup sage are not fuzzy or thickset like many other sage plant — instead , they are lustrous , elongated , and slightly serrated with a tip of gray on the undersurface . This salvia is normally imbed in springiness and will grow quickly , flowering within about four month .
Salvia columbariae
Salvia columbariae is a stunning annual self-praise one or more circular clump packed with tiny , vivid - blue flowers in early spring to early summer . Borne along powerfully erect , square stems , each clustering contain one XII to several dozens of two - lipped flower .
Salvia apiana
Also referred to as whitened sage , it is characterized by silvery - white , aromatic leaf and tall flower husk hit above the foliage expose lavender tinged blanched blossom . This shruby salvia make 2 - 4 metrical foot tall and is useful for cheery dry areas with good drainage .
Salvia ‘Love And Wishes’
Salvia ‘ lie with And Wishes ’ is an upright salvia featuring showy spikes of bold cherry-red - purple prime , emerge from papery , dark burgundy bracts . bloom from late saltation to Robert Lee Frost , the blossoms rise along dark stems , well above the leafage of mid to deep green , glossy leafage . light and fast maturation , this works is a deary of butterflies and hummingbirds .
Salvia ‘Amistad’
Salvia ‘ Amistad ’ is a bushy , erect salvia with expectant , rich royal purple flowers adorned with nearly black calyces . Blooming always from other summertime until frost , the flowers are a attracter for butterflies and hummingbirds .
Salvia ‘Azure Snow’
Perfect for small spaces , Salvia ‘ Azure Snow ’ is a adorable upright salvia produce singular bichrome anthesis spikes of abstruse violet puritanical and white heyday . The blossoms are densely arranged in curlicue around the stem and flower from former spring into early summer .
Salvia dorrii
Salvia dorrii is a woody evergreen salvia , grow narrowly lance - shaped , silvery gray , aromatic parting on square stem and spectacular cryptic drear - reddish blue flower spikes in late spring to mid summertime . large than most other sages , the intensely colored flowering of bright blue to depressed - reddish blue flowers stretch out beyond the pinkish - majestic bracts , while their long stamen lend further elegance to the video display .
Salvia ‘Ember’s Wish’
Salvia ‘ Ember ’s Wish ’ is a woody - base salvia sport flamboyant spike heel of promising fiery - orange and coral flowers emerging from papery , dusty rose bracts . Blooming from spring to frost , the flower rise along sullen burgundy halt , well above the foliage of mid - green glossy leaves . The blossoms do not fade in the heat and provide a welcome splashing of gloss in the landscape painting .
Salvia ‘Hot Lips’
Salvia ‘ Hot Lips ’ is an evergreen plant salvia that will reinforce you with a cornucopia of heart - catching , smart as a whip red and lily-white blossom from former summer to hoarfrost . Borne in loose pole raceme , the blossoms are lip rouge ruby-red in early summer , turn lifelike red and pure snowy in mid - later summertime before changing to white when the days shorten .
Salvia pachyphylla
Salvia pachyphylla is a long - hold out evergreen bush , produce slenderly cupped , silvery grey-haired , redolent leaves on square root word and spectacular bluish / purple blossom spike all summer long . tumid than most other sages , the intensely tinge inflorescences of tube-shaped downcast flowers extend beyond the rosy pinkish bracts , while their prospicient stamen add further elegance to the display .
Salvia ‘Indiglo Girl’
Salvia ‘ Indiglo Girl ’ is a cross between Salvia nemorosa and Salvia pratensis . It is a lovely upright piano salvia boasting declamatory , rich and vivacious blue flowers adorned with contrast dark calyx . The heyday are densely order in whorls around the stems and blossom from late spring into former summer . It graciously rebloom if sheared back .
Salvia dorisiana
Salvia dorisiana is a semi - evergreen , woody - based , heavily branched sage or salvia with large , foggy , pallid greenish , heart - shaped leaves that give off a fruity aroma when brushed or trounce . blossom in wintertime to summer , depending on positioning , splendid spikes of great magenta pinkish flowers , with a lime - green calyx , pull bees , butterfly and hummingbird .
Salvia ‘Little Kiss’
Salvia ‘ petty Kiss ’ is a charming , upright salvia with a profusion of centre - entrance , glorious lip rouge cherry-red and white flowers from spring to freeze . Borne in free terminal racemes , the blossoms are of great esthetic ingathering in borders or container and pull loads of butterflies , hummingbirds and good insects .
Salvia guaranitica
Salvia guaranitica is a lovely salvia feature jazzy spikes of vivacious dark gamy flowers emerging from shameful calyx . Blooming from late spring to frost , the heyday rise along sylphlike , dark stems above a lush clump of prolate green leaves . redolent , the foliation exudes a piano anise seed fragrance when hurt .
Salvia ‘Mystic Spires Blue’
Salvia ‘ Mystic Spires Blue ’ is an excellent compact pick from the extremely democratic Salvia ‘ Indigo Spires ’ . Well - prongy and very costless - flowering , ‘ Mystic Spires Blue ’ bring forth raft of inflexible , purple - blue flower stalks that are of great aesthetic appeal in beds , borders or containers and attract tons of butterfly , hummingbirds and good insects .
Salvia ‘Ultra Violet’
Salvia ‘ Ultra Violet ’ is an eye - get salvia that will honor you with a cornucopia of smart violet efflorescence from mid summer to frost . Borne in loose depot racemes along upright stems clad with aromatic dark green leaves , the very attractive heyday stalks are of great aesthetical ingathering in beds or borderline .
Salvia ‘Royal Bumble’
Salvia ‘ Royal Bumble ’ is a shaggy-coated evergreen bush with a profuseness of large , superb crimson efflorescence adorned with contrast purplish - grim calyx over a longsighted season . Blooming from spring to frost , the blossoms are gestate on purple - black , upright stems and stand out against the foliage of aromatic , glossy , deep - green leaves .
Salvia ‘Lady in Red’
‘ Lady in Red ’ is a compact , good salvia boasting loose stiletto heel of two - lipped , vasiform , brilliant red flowers . flower from midsummer to fall , the flush are attractive to butterfly , bees , hummingbirds and other pollinators . The flush of this showy southern native are borne well above the shaggy-coated leaf of oval dark dark-green leaf .
Salvia ‘Summer Jewel Pink’
‘ Summer Jewel Pink ’ is a compact , upright perennial boasting loose spike of two - lipped , tubular , carapace - pink flowers . bloom from early summer to fall , the blossoms are attractive to butterflies , bee , hummingbird and other pollinators . The flowers of this showy southerly native are borne well above the shaggy-haired foliage of gist - shaped saturnine gullible leaves .
Salvia greggii
Salvia greggii is a bushy sub - shrub boasting brilliant racemes of unremarkably red , two - lipped flowers , but the prime may also look violet , pink , scandalmongering or reddish blue . Blooming from leaping to frost , the prime bloom in whorls above the mintily aromatic leafage of small , oval-shaped , downy , green leaves .
Salvia curviflora
Salvia curviflora is an upright , shaggy , semi - evergreen salvia with a profuseness of vasiform bright fuchsia - pinkish flowers held on farseeing graceful spike in summer and fall . The depressed backtalk of the velvety blossoms is often veer under . The marvelous , vertical spires are clothed with a lush foliage of long , lance - shaped , dark light-green leaves .
Salvia lyrata
Salvia lyrata is an just , herbaceous salvia forming a stem canker of elongated , lyre - shaped , dark immature to slightly purplish leaf , often lobed or dissected . In former outpouring to early summer , an abundance of sick - blue to lavender , two - lipped tube-shaped flowers , deck with contrasting purplish - browned sepal , are borne in whorls around the stems .
Salvia oxyphora
Salvia oxyphora is a half - hardy , upright perennial with a luxuriant foliage of large , lanceolate leafage that clothe the erect stems . Blooming from mid summer through fall , spike of striking carmine garden pink to cherry carmine flowers , brood in fine hair , come out above the foliage . Sweetly fragrant , the heyday attract bee and hummingbirds .
