salvia
Americannoun
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salvias
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of salvia
1835–45; < New Latin, Latin: sage
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Blue By You salvia is bursting with bright blue flowers from late spring into fall, when spent flowers are removed.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2024
In spring, the garden’s ceanothus, salvia and California honeysuckle add vibrant color to the garden’s silvery color palette.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
In those areas, the birds can be attracted by planting things such as firebush, firespike, cuphea and salvia.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 14, 2020
His DNA was later found to match salvia on the back of the vestment worn by Canon White on 7 July last year.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2019
The garden salvia, for instance, slaps the burly bumblebee upon the back and marks him for her own as he is ushered in to the feast.
From My Studio Neighbors by William Hamilton Gibson
So are cleome, Gomphrena and various salvias, with their tubular flowers that invite hummingbirds to make a pit stop on the way south.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
Williams’ landscape “canvas” is relatively small, but lushly filled with 20 varieties of California native plants — salvias, ceanothus, buckwheats, mallows and such perennials as monkey flower and yarrow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
She said she was more concerned about people staying safe than the welfare of her coleus and salvias plants.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2020
As global temperatures rise, the flowering periods of salvias and other important nectar plants for hummingbirds are shifting earlier in the season, becoming increasingly out of sync with the birds’ foraging demands.
From National Geographic ● Apr. 18, 2018
The flower-beds flamed with geraniums and salvias, and were gay with gladioli, while Amy and Mrs. Clifford exulted in the extent and variety of their finely quilled and rose-like asters and dahlias.
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
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