All about Xii coinage, including:
Leucophyllum frutescens (Texas sage, Texas ranger, silverleaf)
Leucophyllum laevigatum (Chihuahuan sage)
Leucophyllum occurs as genus of evergreen shrubs in the plantago family Plantaginaceae, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. A pack-odd coinage come typically known as "sages", although it keep close at hand there is no relationship to the genus Salvia.
A solitary axillary flowers come bell- or even funnel-shaped, using 5 lobes & ii lips, & colors ranging from either white to magenta to purple.
These bush come detected inside sandlike soils, & have a high salt tolerance. It use get popular for edge & vicinity plantings inside heater & drier areas; it necessitate minimum a stream, come well shaped into hedges, & might bloom on top their entire surface. Texas sage Leucophyllum frutescens is available in the kind of cultivars.
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