Mystery plant blooms in autumn, has hundreds of relatives

BY JOHN NELSON Curator, USC Herbarium
Posted 11/6/11

Here's another cultivated plant that belongs to the mint family. In fact, I'll go ahead and tell you that it is a species of sage, in the genus Salvia. This is a huge genus with nearly a thousand species: They all have square stems and opposite …

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