Salvia apiana (White Sage)

3/24/17 Dripping Springs Campground, Agua Tibia, 

Cleveland National Forest, Riverside County, CA

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Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, CA

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LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: White Sage

SPECIES: Salvia apiana

FAMILY: Lamiaceae (Mint Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/24/17

LOCATION: Dripping Springs Campground, Agua Tibia Wilderness, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside County, CA

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Treatment from Jepson eFlora:

Native 

Habit: Perennial herb, subshrub, (< 1)1--2(3) m. 

Leaf: 4--8 cm; blade widely lanceolate, base tapered; teeth minute, rounded; hairs dense, minute, simple, appressed. 

Inflorescence: clusters few-flowered, in +- spike-like clusters, these in +- raceme-like, interrupted panicles; bracts < to > calyx, lance-linear, recurved. 

Flower: calyx 8--10 mm, lobes barely or not spine-tipped, upper lip entire; corolla tube 12--22 mm, white and lavender, upper lip < 2 mm, lower lip 4--5 mm, upcurved, blocking throat; stamens, style exserted. 

Fruit: 2.5--3 mm, shiny, light brown. 

Ecology: Dry slopes, coastal-sage scrub, chaparral, yellow-pine forest; 

Elevation: generally < 1500 m.

Bioregional Distribution: s SCoRO, SCo, TR, PR, w edge D; 

Distribution Outside California: Baja California. 

Flowering Time: Apr--Aug 

Jepson eFlora Author: Deborah Engle Averett