Salvia leucantha ‘Santa Barbara’

I'm trying to post new plants I've never posted before and I've already posted a photo of this species — http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-03-20 — but that image was a bit dark and a macro/close-up and I like how the purple "pops" in this one.

From the Missouri Botanical Garden, http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=b954 » “This sage is most noted for producing a very attractive late summer to frost bloom of showy bicolor flowers consisting of white corollas and longer-lasting funnel-form purple calyces. Flowers appear in dense, arching, terminal spikes (racemes to 10" long) that extend above the foliage. Flowers are attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Linear, lance-shaped, gray-green leaves (to 4" long) are borne in pairs on square stems. Foliage has a velvet-like texture, hence the sometimes used common name of velvet sage for this species.”

Species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Salvia_leucantha&rank=binomial

Photo taken at SIUC Plant Biology Greenhouse, http://www.plantbiology.siu.edu/facilities/plant-biology-facilities/greenhouse/index.php

1 year ago (“An historic day for the Church”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-04-27
2 years ago (“Holly”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-04-27
3 years ago (“Enroute”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-04-27
4 years ago (“Morning iris”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-04-27

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