Salvia mellifera
Salvia mellifera, Black Sage.
Salvia mellifera, Black Sage has white flowers and green foliage.
Salvia mellifera with a male Anna Hummingbird giving me the eye.
Salvia mellifera, Black Sage in the wild above the Santa Margarita Nursery
Salvia mellifera, Black Sage, with Dendromecon rigida
Salvia mellifera, Black Sage, will grow next to the ocean.
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 along a coastal trail.
Here's a native
sage page where you can see all the Salvias of California.
Available at our Online 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 |
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| usda: | 7 to 10 |
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| height[m]: | 1.00 to 1.50 |
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| width[m]: | 1.00 to 2.00 |
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| rainfall[cm]: | 31.00 to 77.00 |
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What does all this mean!?!
Last edited on 2012-08-17 07:21:37.
