Guatemalan Leaf Sage (Salvia cacaliifolia) in the Salvias Database

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Herb/Forb
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun to Partial Shade Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences:	Wet Mesic Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness:	Zone 8a -12.2 °C (10 °F) to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
Maximum recommended zone:	Zone 11
Plant Height:	36 - 54 inches
Plant Spread:	42 inches
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Color:	Blue Other: Gentian blue; True blue
Flower Time:	Summer Late summer or early fall Fall Other: Deadheading flowers ensures more flowering throughout the season.
Uses:	Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant:	Bees Butterflies Hummingbirds
Resistances:	Deer Resistant
Containers:	Suitable in 3 gallon or larger Needs excellent drainage in pots

Common names

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Comments:

Posted by Onewish1 (NJ - Zone 6a) on Jun 25, 2013 5:22 PM concerning plant:

I was lucky enough to have this one return in a container kept outdoors this year.. even though I am zone 6

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Posted by Marilyn (Kentucky - Zone 6a) on Apr 29, 2013 9:44 PM concerning plant:

"Salvia cacaliifolia (blue vine sage or Guatemalan sage) is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, and in Guatemala and Honduras, at 4,921–8,202 feet elevation. Since the 1970s, it has been available in the United States, after Strybing Arboretum and Huntington Botanical Gardens introduced it to California growers.

It is an herbaceous perennial, blooming from midsummer to autumn with many pure gentian-blue flowers, about .5 inches long, with small green calyces. The leaves are grass-green in color with many hairs. The creeping rootstock spreads easily, forming clumps that are easily divided."

Taken from wikipedia's page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

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