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
- part shade, shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- red
- Wildlife value
- butterflies, hummingbirds, pollinators
- Landscape uses
- hedge or screen, foundation
- Native states
- TX
Related native plants
More Salvia species
- Lyre-leaf Sage (Salvia lyrata)
- Black Sage (Salvia mellifera)
- Chia (Salvia columbariae)
- White Sage (Salvia apiana)
- Mealycup Sage (Salvia farinacea)
- Scarlet Sage (Salvia coccinea)