Scientific Name: Salvia yangii ( syn. Perovskia atriplicifolia )
Common Name: Russian sage
Family Name: Lamiaceae
Origin: Central / west Asia
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Spreading, Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Fall interest, Fragrance, Herb, Perennial border, Summer interest, Tall background
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Lobed, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Lanceolate, Ovate, Crenate, Dentate, Pinnately lobed
Flowers: Verticillaster, Violet, Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Schizocarp, Brown, Oct-Nov
Key ID Features:
Leaves opposite, most lanceolate, 2.5-5cm long x 1-2cm wide, deeply-lobed, dusty green, pubescence slightly fuzzy and greyish, sage-like small when crushed; panicle-like arrangement of many spike-like verticillaster branches, flowers densely whorled at nodes, purple, two-lipped, tubular, 1-1.5cm long.