Salvia farinacea Augusta Duelberg Saururus pickle-sized leaves

pickle-sized leaves

where average to slightly moist soils are perfect

membranaceum superficially resembles a clumping E

000' elevation in China's Hubei Province

each highlighted by a dark purple stripe down the back center of each petal and a very dark purple lip surrounding a yellow throat

Salvia farinacea Augusta Duelberg Saururus pickle-sized leavesLeave it to Texas plantsman Greg Grant to have nothing better to do on a summer day than wander through old graveyards, where he stumbled on a clump of Salvia farinacea gracing the Texas gravesite of Augusta Duelberg. The cuttings rooted and Salvia 'Augusta Duelberg' was born. This splendid selection of the Texas native Salvia farinacea makes a compact 30" tall x 4' wide specimen, topped from May until frost with hundreds of spikes of silvery white