California White Sage

Celebrated and appreciated for its strengths and uses, California White Sage is a divine plant for your own sacred garden. Salvia apiana is a revered sage used by west coast Native Americans for ceremonial and medicinal purposes. In the garden, this venerable plant is grown for its prominent, pollinator-friendly flowers, and attractive, aromatic foliage. White Sage is a slow-growing, rounded sprawling shrub native to Southern California with soft, silvery, fragrant foliage. Young, wrinkled, grey-green leaves mature to large, white, velvety smooth leaves on white, erect, soft-stemmed, resinous branches. Mostly evergreen, California White Sage may go completely deciduous in extended hot summers without supplemental water. Long wands of white flowers with pale lavender-pink tones bloom spring through summer in spiked clusters on spectacularly tall, spear-like stalks up to 6 ft. high. Salvia apiana allures bees, hummingbirds, butterflies and other pollinators in abundance. The flowers w