Salvia funerea

Salvia funerea
in Titus Canyon, Death Valley
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Genus:	Salvia
Species:	S. funerea
Binomial name
Salvia funerea M.E.Jones

Salvia funerea (Death Valley sage, woolly sage, funeral sage) is a spiny-leaved shrub endemic to the Death Valley region in eastern California and western Nevada. The plant can be found in washes and along limestone canyon walls. This shrub produces many branches coated in white woolly fibers and may exceed a meter in height. The leaves are tipped with spines. Flowers occur in clusters of three in each leaf axil. The tubular purple or blue corollas are between one and two centimeters long and are surrounded by calyces of spine-tipped sepals.

References

• Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Jon Mark Stewart, 1998, pg. 183

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment
• USDA Plants Profile
• Photo gallery