Salvia dorrii var. incana (var. carnosa)
Purple Sage

Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)

Photo taken in near Entiat and the Columbia River, dry open rocky slope, 60 to 70 meters from the river

Flowers:

flowers in more or less interrupted spikes or in racemes; corolla blue-violet, about 1 cm, bilabiate; lower lip 3 lobed and the upper lip with 2 lobes, upper lobes generally less than the lower; corolla tube generally 6 to 13 mm; stamens and styles exerted; calyx generally 6 to 11 mm, bilabiate

Leaves:

entire, linear to spoon-shaped, tapered to a petiole at base, 10 to 40 mm long by 6 to 28 mm wide; silvery

Plant:

many branched shrub, 20 to 60 cm tall

Habitat:

dry open places at lower elevations, often associated with sagebrush

Distribution of species:

the Great Basin north to the east Cascades to Washington

Distribution of genus:

more or less 900 species: worldwide, especially in tropical and subtropical South America