Tough, easy to grow, and good-looking year-round, Salvia leucophylla (Purple Sage) is a graceful semi-evergreen shrub of mounding, spreading habit with arching branches adorned with upturned tips. It boasts brilliant purple flowers borne in large, tightly stacked whorls from mid-spring to early summer. The highly aromatic blossoms are very attractive to bees, butterflies, and a variety of birds. They are borne atop the lush foliage of soft, wrinkled, gray-green leaves. Both stems and leaves are richly covered with fine white hairs. Incredibly drought tolerant, Purple Sage is also heat and poor soil tolerant. It makes a pretty silver foliage accent in the dry, native plant garden.

• Grows up to 3-5 ft. tall and wide (90-150 cm).
• Thrives in full sun in well-drained soils. Provide little to occasional irrigation (once or twice a month) after the first year. Drought tolerant once established.
• Easy to grow, fairly pest and disease free, it attracts bees and butterflies but is deer resistant.
• Perfect for beds and borders, bank stabilization, hedges, coastal gardens, or Mediterranean gardens.
• Propagate by seed.
• Native to the southern coast of California and Baja California.