Mountain Sage
Salvia regla
Mountain sage is a fall-blooming shrub of West Texas canyons, lighting up with brilliant scarlet tubular flowers just as hummingbirds migrate south. Drought-hardy and deer-resistant for part shade.
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 3–6 ft
- Spacing
- 3–5 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- September, October
- Bloom colors
- red
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, hummingbirds, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- TX