''Salvia eremostachya'', the rose sage, sand sage, or desert sage, is a perennial shrub native to the western edge of the
Colorado Desert
California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert. It encompasses approximately , including the heavily irrigated Coachella and Imperial valleys. It is home to many unique flora and fauna.
Geography and geology
The Colorado De ...
. It reaches high, with purplish green bracts on flowers that range from blue to rose to nearly white. The flowers grow in whorled clusters, blooming from April to November.
The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
, "eremostachya" (Greek for "desert stachys"), refers to the plants likeness to those of the genus ''
Stachys''.
References
External links
USDA Plants ProfileJepson manualPhoto gallery
eremostachya
Flora of California
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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