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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Leucophyllum frutescens - (Berland.) Johnst.
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Common Name
Purple Sage, Texas Sage
Habit
Shrub
Synonym
Leucohyllum texanum Bent
Habitat
Planted
Color Of Flower
Pink/purple
Key Characters
Large evergreen shrub, corolla neither saccate nor spurred.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Gamopetalae
 
Series :
Bicarpellatae
 
Order :
Personales
Plant Description

Evergreen shrub with upper leaves alternate, lower opposite, densely covered with stellate, silvery-white hairs; simple, oval or elliptic, blue-gray, pubescent; flowers axillary, solitary or in clusters, dark pink, lavender to purple, blooms throughout the year, usually irregular; calyx 4-5 lobed, cleft upto the base, persistent; corolla slightly 2-lipped, imbricate in bud; stamens 4, distinct, 2-celled; disc annular, glandular; ovary 2-celled, ovules many, style simple, long, stigma capitate or 2-lobed; capsule ovoid, enclosed in persistent calyx; seeds many, small, rounded.

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