Plant · P-1038

Mealy Blue Sage

Salvia farinacea

Mealy Blue Sage is an aromatic, clumping perennial sage of prairies, plains and limestone woodland edges across the south-central United States and northeastern Mexico, usually one and a half to three feet tall and about as wide. Dense spikes of small blue, two-lipped flowers, their felted white to purple sepals giving the plant its common name, open from spring through fall and draw hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. It is deer-resistant and holds up to heat and drought once established, making a long-blooming border or wildflower-meadow plant.