Salvia elegans

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Salvia

Herbs, subshrubs , or shrubs . Leaves simple or pinnately compound . Verticillasters 2- to many flowered, in racemes , panicles, or spikes, rarely solitary, axillary ; bracteoles minute. Calyx tubular to campanulate , hairy or glabrous on throat inside, 2-lipped; upper lip entire, 2-toothed, or 3-mucronate; lower lip 2-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped; tube straight, horizontal, curved upward or adaxially dilated , with or without hairy annulus inside; upper lip folded, straight or falcate , apex entire or emarginate ; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed; middle lobe widest, margin entire, apex emarginate, fringed , or 2-lobulate; lateral lobes oblong or circular, spreading or reflexed . Stamens 2; filaments short, horizontal or erect ; connectives prolonged, linear , T-shaped; upper arms with fertile elliptic or linear anther cells ; lower arms robust or slender, with fertile or sterile anther cells, separated or connected to each other; staminodes 2, small or absent. Style 2-cleft, lobes subulate , linear or circular, equal, anterior lobe larger or posterior lobe indistinct. Disc slightly swollen in front or ringlike. Nutlets triquetrous , ovoid or oblong, glabrous, smooth .

About 900(-1100) species: tropical and temperate zones of the Old and New World, 84 species in China.

There are many taxonomic problems in the flora area, especially in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces ; collation with the situation in the Himalaya is much needed.[1]

Physical Description

Landscaping

Care: Hardy and trouble-free. Heat and drought tolerant . Pinch lightly in spring to keep plant bushy. Remove spent flowers to prolong blooming season .

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 24-36" apart.

Soil: Prefers organic , well-drained soil. • Minimum pH: 6.6 • Maximum pH: 8.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Salvia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 478 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

S. aethiopis (African Sage) · S. africana-caerulea (Salvia) · S. africana-lutea (Beach Salvia) · S. algeriensis (Algerian Salvia) · S. amissa (Santa Catalina Mountain Sage) · S. apiana (White Sage) · S. apiana var. apiana (White Sage) · S. apiana var. compacta (Compact White Sage) · S. argentea (Silver Sage) · S. argentea 'Hobbit's Foot' (Hobbit's Foot Silver Salvia) · S. argentia (Salvia) · S. arizonica (Arizona Sage) · S. aurita (African Blue Sage) · S. austriaca (Austrian Sage) · S. azurea (Azure Blue Sage) · S. azurea var. azurea (Azure Blue Sage) · S. azurea var. grandiflora (Pitcher Sage) · S. azurea 'Nekan' (Pitcher Sage) · S. ballotiflora (Blue Shrub Sage) · S. barrelieri (Barrelier Salvia) · S. bernardina (Bernard's Sage) · S. blepharophylla (Eyelash-Leaved Sage) · S. blepharophylla 'Diablo' (Eyelash-Leaved Sage) · S. brandegeei (Brandegees Sage) · S. broussonetii (Salvia) · S. buchananii (Buchanans Sage) · S. cacaliaefolia (Gentian Leaf Sage) · S. cacaliifolia (Blue Vine Sage) · S. canariensis (Canary Island Sage) · S. canariensis var. candidissima (Canary Island Sage) · S. candelabrum (Salvia) · S. candidissima (Salvia) · S. canescens (Salvia) · S. carduacea (Thistle Sage) · S. cedrosensis (Salvia) · S. chamaedryoides (Blue Oak Sage) · S. chamaedryoides 'Superba' (Blue Oak Sage) · S. chamelaeagnea (African Blue Sage) · S. chapmanii (Chapman's Sage) · S. chiapensis (Chiapas Sage) · S. chinopeplica (Salvia) · S. chionophylla 'Snowflake Sage' (Snowflake Sage) · S. cinnabarina (Salvia) · S. clevelandii (Cleveland Blue Sage) · S. clevelandii 'Winnifred Gilman' (Cleveland Blue Sage) · S. coahuilensis (Coahuila Sage) · S. coccinea (Blood Sage) · S. coccinea 'Alba' (Hummingbird Sage) · S. coccinea 'Bicolor' (Hummingbird Sage) · S. coccinea 'Brenthurst' (Hummingbird Sage) · S. coccinea 'Coral Nymph' (Coral Nymph Scarlet Sage Salvia Coccinea) · S. coccinea 'Forest Fire' (Hummingbird Sage) · S. coccinea 'Hummingbird Forest Fire' (Forest Fire Salvia) · S. coccinea'Hummingbird White' (White Salvia) · S. coccinea 'Lady in Red' (Hummingbird Sage) · S. coccinea 'Snow Nymph' (Hummingbird Sage) · S. columbariae (Chia) · S. columbariae Benth. var. ziegleri Munz (Chia) · S. columbariae var. argillacea (California Chia) · S. columbariae var. columbariae (California Sage) · S. columbariae var. ziegleri (Ziegler's Sage) · S. confertiflora (Harvest Sage) · S. corrugata (Sage) · S. curtiflora (Salvia) · S. cyanescens (Salvia) · S. daghestanica (Dwarf Silver-Leaf Sage) · S. darcyi (Fiery Sage) · S. davidsonii (Davidson's Sage) · S. dentata (Salvia) · S. discolor (Andean Silver-Leaf Sage) · S. disjuncta (Southern Mexican Sage) · S. divinorum (Diviners Sage) · S. dolichantha (Clustered Sage) · S. dombeyi (Sacred Incan Sage) · S. dominica (Pungent Sage) · S. dorii (Desert Sage) · S. dorisiana (Fruit Sage) · S. dorrii (Grayball Sage) · S. dorrii (Kellogg) Abrams var. incana (Benth.) Strachan (Purple Sage) · S. dorrii mearnsii (Grayball Sage) · S. dorrii var. clokeyi (Purple Sage) · S. dorrii var. incana (Purple Sage) · S. dorrii var. pilosa (Purple Sage) · S. dumetorum (Sage) · S. elegans (Pineapple Sage) · S. elegans 'Golden Delicious' (Golden Pineapple Sage) · S. elegans 'Honey Melon' (Honey Melon Sage) · S. elegans'Peach' (Peach Salvia) · S. elegans 'Tangerine' (Tangerine Sage) · S. engelmannii (Engelmann's Sage) · S. eremostachya (Rose Sage) · S. farinacea (Mealy Cup Sage) · S. farinacea 'Blue Bedder' (Blue Bedder Mealy Cup Sage) · S. farinacea 'Victoria Blue' (Victoria Blue Mealy Cup Sage) · S. farinacea var. farinacea (Mealycup Sage) · S. farinacea var. latifolia (Mealycup Sage) · S. farinacea 'Azul' (Mealy Sage 'azul') · S. farinacea 'Cirrus' (Cirrus Mealy Cup Sage) · S. farinacea 'Evolution' (Evolution Mealy Sage) · S. farinacea 'Gruppenblau' (Mealy Cup Sage)

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Further Reading

• A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conife London;Longmans, Green, 1901. url , p. 749.
• American flower-garden directory: containing practical directions for the culture of plants in the hot-house, garden-house, flower garden, and rooms or parlours, for every month in the year. .. Instructions for erecting a hot-house, g by Hibbert and Buist. .. Philadelphia: Printed for the authors by Adam Waldie, 1832. url p. 117.
• Annual report of the American Institute, of the City of New York. [S.l.: s.n.], 1862- url p. 609.
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. 7 1912 [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 219, p. 412, p. 561, p. 946.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 1 1890-1895 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 110, p. 1260, p. 1269.
• Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 9 1966 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 107, p. 63, p. 74.
• Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geo by L.H. Bailey assisted by Wilhelm Miller, PH. D., associate editor, and many expert cultivators and botanists. Illustrated with nearly three thousand engravings and one hundred and forty-five full-pa New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. url p. 1609.
• Hand-list of herbaceous plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens. London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off. by Darling, 1902. url p. 981.
• Journal of mycology. Manhattan, Kan.: [s.n.], 1885-1908. url p. 162, p. 165, p. 274, p. 29.
• Lindley, J. Paxton's flower garden /by Professor Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton. 2 1853 London: Bradbury and Evans, [1850]-1853. url p. 15.
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1846-1958 url p. 139, p. 435.
• The American flower garden directory, containing practical directions for the culture of plants in the hot-house, garden-house, flower garden, and rooms or parlours, for every month in the year. Philadelphia, A. Waldie, 1832. url p. 117.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 766.
• The English flower garden and home grounds; design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs and trees for the open-air garden and their culture, by W. Robinson. .. Illustrated with many engravings on wood. London: J. Murray, 1900. url p. 791.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url p. 198, p. 267, p. 6, p. 96.
• The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette. London: published for the proprietors, 1844-1873. url p. 1364, p. 1637.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url , p. 247, p. 301, p. 411, p. 58, p. 756.
• The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. Albany, N.Y.: Luthur Tucker, 1846/1847-1875 url p. 163.
• The Illustrated dictionary of gardening: a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists / edited by George Nicholson. ..; assisted by J.W.H. Trail. .. and J. Garrett. ... London: L. Upcott Gill; 1887-1889. url p. 350.
• The florist and garden miscellany. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850-1851. url p. 294.
• The garden... London, 1872- url p. 267.
• The illustrated dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists. Ed. by George Nicholson. Assisted by Professor J. W. H. Trail and J. Garrett. London: L. U. Gill, [1884]-89. url p. 350.
• The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 3065.
• Trees and shrubs of Mexico / By Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1920-1926. url p. 1269.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 02, 2007:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1673046
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15543071
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:456162-1
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: SAEL6
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 61325

Footnotes

1. "Salvia". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 195. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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