Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salvia leucantha
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Mexican Bush Sage
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1306
Shrub
Perennial
Non-native
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LEAVES:
Deciduous
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue-violet and white
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped corolla
2 fertile exserted stamens & possibly some sterile stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Schizocarp of mericarps
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