Perennial evergreen herb or subshrub 0.5 m tall. Leaves ovate to linear, blunt-tipped, entire, mostly short-stalked. Flowers in long clusters, each verticillaster of 2 flowers. Corolla white, pink or red to purple, tube 2 cm long; summer to autumn. Similar to s. microphylla (with which hybrids are formed) but without a pair of papillae inside the corolla near its base.
SW USA, Mexico
Source: (2002). Salvia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Flowers white.
Compact habit. Flowers brighter crimson than the species.
Salvia greggii 'Raspberry Royale'
A hybrid with a rounded habit and growing to about 1 m tall. Flowers dark crimson.