| Scientific Name: | Salvia x sylvestris cvs. ( syn. S. x superba ) |
| Common Name: | salvia cultivars |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract birds, Bedding plant, Container planting, Filler, Group or mass planting, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Lustrous, Lanceolate, Ovate, Crenate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, Blue, Violet, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, ovate to lanceolate, margins crenate, verticillasters of bilaterally symmetrical florets, usually blue-violet. | |