Salvia

Thanks to Megan Lowery for catching this incorrect identification from a shot taken back in 2012. She suggests either S. engelmannia or S. texana as the correct ID. Not sure how the wrong name got attached, whether it was in the field, or just sloppiness on my part, but I do recall having had a Salvia texana, aka Teas Sage, in my yard at one point, and perhaps a picture of it was mislabeled prior to publication on this blog, which hasn’t been updated for several years. I noted that Scutellaria drummondii is called Salvia drummondii on the Lady Bird Johnson Plant ID part of their website: “Salvia drummondii grows up to 12 inches tall. It is often branched at the base, forming clumps. Leaves are opposite and densely arranged. ” (https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=SCDR2). Live and learn.