Texas Sage

"A gray shrub with leaves densely covered with stellate, silvery hairs and bright pink-lavender, bilaterally symmetrical flowers borne singly in crowded leaf axils. Typically a compact shrub, 2-5 ft. tall, Texas barometer-bush or cenizo occasionally reaches 8 ft. in height and 4-6 ft. in width. Leaves silvery gray to greenish, soft to the touch, up to 1 1/4 inches long but mostly 1 inch or less, tapering more gradually to the base than to the rounded tip, margins smooth. Flowers violet to purple, sometimes pink, nearly bell-shaped, and up to 1 inch in length and width, appearing intermittently from spring to fall. Fruit a small capsule."

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"The Texas ranger is highly adapted to hot and sunny garden locations on well drained soils and with low amounts of supplemental water during summer."

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