Salvia vaseyi

Scallopleaf sage

Family: Lamiaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Scallopleaf sage is a California native shrub found on the western edge of the Desert Sonoran bioregion in dry, rocky desert slopes and creosote-bush scrub at elevations below 1,100 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces white flowers with a delicate corolla tube 13 to 20 millimeters long, featuring a lower lip 6 to 9 millimeters wide. Growing as a compact subshrub less than 1.5 meters tall, it develops dense, minute appressed hairs across its foliage. Its basal leaves are 2 to 6 centimeters long with oblong-ovate blades, featuring minute rounded teeth and a base that ranges from truncate to tapered. The fruit is small, light brown, and measures 2.5 to 3 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Dry, rocky desert slopes, canyons, creosote-bush scrub

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: < 1100 m

Bioregions: w edge DSon

California counties: San Diego, Riverside, Imperial, San Bernardino

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.