white sage Lamiaceae Salvia
apiana Jeps.
symbol: SAAP2
Leaf: Opposite, simple, evergreen, narrowly elliptical to lanceolate in shape, to 3 inches in length; woolly-tomentose and gray-green above and below; aromatic.
Flower: Species is monoecious; white to very light purple-pink, in whorls borne on an 8 inch spike; individual flowers to 1/2 inch with long pistils and stamens extending beyond the pea-like coralla; very aromatic; appearing during the summer.
Fruit: Small shiny nutlets borne in husks.
Twig: Red-brown to gray-brown and pale-tomentose.
Bark: Gray-brown.
Form: A rounded straggling shrub to five feet tall with arching branches that root where they touch the ground.
Looks like: fragrant sage
- purple sage
- black sage
- rockrose