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'''''Salvia blepharophylla''''' ('''eyelash-leaved sage''') is a creeping perennial from the Mexican states of San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas. The epithet, ''blepharophylla'', is from the Greek for "with leaves fringed like eyelashes". It's a rapidly spreading stoloniferous plant with 2.5&nbsp;cm long signal-red flowers with an orange undertone. The flowers grow in loose whorls spaced about 2.5&nbsp;cm apart, on 30&nbsp;cm long inflorescences. In full bloom the plant reaches 45&nbsp;cm in height.<ref name="Clebsch">{{cite book|last=Clebsch|first=Betsy|coauthors=Carol D. Barner|title=The New Book of Salvias|publisher=Timber Press|date=2003|page=46|isbn=9780881925609|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NM0iwB8GrQYC&pg=PA46}}</ref>
'''''Salvia blepharophylla''''' ('''eyelash-leaved sage''') is a creeping perennial from the Mexican states of San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas. The epithet, ''blepharophylla'', is from the Greek for "with leaves fringed like eyelashes". It's a rapidly spreading stoloniferous plant with 2.5 cm long signal-red flowers with an orange undertone. The flowers grow in loose whorls spaced about 2.5 cm apart, on 30 cm long inflorescences. In full bloom the plant reaches 45 cm in height.<ref name="Clebsch">{{cite book|last=Clebsch|first=Betsy|coauthors=Carol D. Barner|title=The New Book of Salvias|publisher=Timber Press|date=2003|page=46|isbn=9780881925609|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NM0iwB8GrQYC&pg=PA46}}</ref>


==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==

Latest revision as of 07:38, 10 May 2010

 Salvia blepharophylla subsp. var.  Eyelash-leafed sage
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Height: 8 in to 12 in
Width: 20 in to 27 in
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Origin:
Poisonous:
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer, early fall, mid fall, late fall
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Features: flowers
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USDA Zones: 9 to 11
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Flower features: red, orange, yellow, pink
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Salvia blepharophylla (eyelash-leaved sage) is a creeping perennial from the Mexican states of San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas. The epithet, blepharophylla, is from the Greek for "with leaves fringed like eyelashes". It's a rapidly spreading stoloniferous plant with 2.5 cm long signal-red flowers with an orange undertone. The flowers grow in loose whorls spaced about 2.5 cm apart, on 30 cm long inflorescences. In full bloom the plant reaches 45 cm in height.[1]

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  1. Clebsch, Betsy; Carol D. Barner (2003). The New Book of Salvias. Timber Press. p. 46. ISBN 9780881925609. http://books.google.com/books?id=NM0iwB8GrQYC&pg=PA46. 

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