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Salvia involucrata

Nauralised at Auckland Zoo. Jan 2007.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Naturalised at Auckland Zoo. Jan 2007.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Naturalised at Auckland. Jan 2007.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Waste area at foot of old dune slope; garden discard or escape; Babbage Place, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 19/04/2020, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

Rose Leaf Sage

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Red/Pink

Habitat

So far known as a garden escape at one site, Auckland Zoo. Here a small number of plants grow along an old garden wall and extend well into a shrubbery. A few grow in wasteland along the Motions Creek where it passes through the zoo grounds.

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Salvia

Family

Lamiaceae

Authority

Salvia involucrata Cav.

Endemic family

Ecology

Year naturalised

2004

Origin

Mexico

Reason for introduction

Ornamental

Tolerances

Cold sensitive - very drought and shade tolerant

Life cycle and dispersal

Perennial subshrub to shrub - dies back in cold weather. Reproduction appears to be asexual by layering - seed apparently not formed in New Zealand. Spread through garden waste and along water ways, natural spread from established plants is the initial process followed by accidental or deliberate by fragmentation of plants

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