Salvia mellifera

Identification

Salvia mellifera, Black Sage.
Salvia mellifera, Black sage looking down on Las Pilitas Nursery. - grid24_3
Salvia mellifera, Black Sage has white flowers and green foliage.
Anna Hummingbird, Salvia mellifera, Black sage - grid24_3
Salvia mellifera with a male Anna Hummingbird giving me the eye.
Salvia mellifera, Black sage is native behind the nursery in Santa Margarita - grid24_3
Salvia mellifera, Black Sage in the wild above the Santa Margarita Nursery
A twenty year old Salvia mellifera, Black sage - grid24_3
Salvia mellifera, Black Sage, with Dendromecon rigida
Salvia mellifera, Black sage along the coast - grid24_3
Salvia mellifera, Black Sage, will grow next to the ocean.
A Northern Checkerspot on a Black Sage Flower. - grid24_3
Salvia mellifera, Black sage with a Checkrspot Butterfly

Description

Black Sage is a three foot evergreen shrub with white to light blue flowers from March to July. This sage is native to sunny dry slopes in the coast ranges from San Jose to Baja. It likes sun, tolerates some shade. Salvia mellifera is native on gravel-sand to adobe clay in full sun to part-shade. Its limitation seems to be rainfall. It needs about 15" of rainfall. It gets between 12-40" in its range, with the lower number being compensated for with fog drip. Important butterfly and hummingbird plant. Quail love the seed. Some companion plants for Salvia mellifera are Quercus agrifolia, Trichostema lanatum, Keckiella cordifolia, and Eriogonum fasciculatum. Black Sage, Salvia mellifera
Black Sage, Salvia mellifera along a coastal trail.
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Available at our Santa Margarita store.

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Characteristics

Salvia mellifera Black Sage tolerates sand, clay and serpentine.
Salvia mellifera Black Sage is great for a bird garden and a butterfly garden.
Salvia mellifera Black Sage's foliage color is green, type is evergreen and has fragrance.
Salvia mellifera Black Sage's flower color is blue and has a fragrance.

Communities

Communities for Salvia mellifera Black Sage:Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub.

Ranges for Salvia mellifera

ph: 4.00 to 8.00
usda: 7 to 10
height[m]: 1.00 to 1.50
width[m]: 1.00 to 2.00
rainfall[cm]: 31.00 to 77.00

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