black sage Lamiaceae Salvia mellifera

Leaf:Opposite, simple, evergreen, narrowly elliptical to lanceolate in shape, to 3 inches in length; dark green (becoming very dark during droughts) and wrinkled above, paler and tomentose below; aromatic.
Flower:Species is monoecious; pale purple to white, in whorls borne on a 12 inch spike; individual flowers to 1/2 inch with long pistils and stamens extending beyond the pea-like coralla; very aromatic; appearing mid-summer.
Fruit:Small shiny nutlets borne in husks.
Twig:Green-brown to purple-brown and pale-tomentose; stems are square.
Bark:Gray-brown.
Form:A rounded straggling shrub to seven feet tall with arching branches that root where they touch the ground.

leaf twig form map

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