Salvia vaseyi
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Salvia vaseyi is a perennial native to the western Colorado Desert
. Flowers grow in compact clusters on 1 to 2 ft (0.3048 to 0.6096 m) spikes. The 0.5 inches (1.3 cm) flowers are white, with whitish bracts, calyx, and leaves, blooming from April to June. The specific epithet was named after botanist George Vasey
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Colorado Desert
California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert, which extends across southwest North America. The Colorado Desert region encompasses approximately , reaching from the Mexican border in the south to the higher-elevation Mojave Desert in the north and from the Colorado River in...
. Flowers grow in compact clusters on 1 to 2 ft (0.3048 to 0.6096 m) spikes. The 0.5 inches (1.3 cm) flowers are white, with whitish bracts, calyx, and leaves, blooming from April to June. The specific epithet was named after botanist George Vasey
George Vasey (botanist)
George S. Vasey was an English-born American botanist who collected a lot in Illinois before integrating the United States Department of Agriculture , where he became Chief Botanist and curator of the greatly expanded National Herbarium.-Biography:George Vasey was born in 1822 in Snainton near...
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