Salvia greggii A. Gray

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Salvia greggii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/salvia/salvia-greggii/). Accessed 2024-10-04.

Genus

Salvia

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

calyx: (pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
corolla: The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.
entire: With an unbroken margin.
glandular: Bearing glands.
lanceolate: Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Salvia greggii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/salvia/salvia-greggii/). Accessed 2024-10-04.

An evergreen shrub 3 to 4 ft high with square, slender, drooping, finely downy, very leafy branches. Leaves clustered, 3⁄4 to 11⁄2 in. long, narrowly oblong-lanceolate to oval, entire. Flowers mostly in pairs, borne from June onwards in slender, glandular-downy racemose inflorescences 2 to 6 in. long. Calyx 3⁄8 in. long, two-lipped, purplish, ribbed. Lower lip of corolla carmine-red, 3⁄4 in. wide; the upper, hooded part more rosy and hairy.

Native of Mexico and Texas; discovered by Dr J. Gregg in 1848 but not described until 1870. It first flowered with Thompson of Ipswich in 1882. Perhaps scarcely as hardy as S. microphylla.

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