''Salvia eremostachya'', the rose sage, sand sage, or Californian desert sage, is a perennial shrub native to the western edge of the

Colorado Desert The Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert located in California, United States, and Baja California, Mexico. It encompasses approximately , including the heavily irrigated Coachella, Imperial and Mexicali valleys. It is home to ...

. It reaches high, with purplish green bracts on flowers that range from blue to rose to nearly white. The flowers grow in whorled clusters, blooming from April to November. The

specific epithet In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...

, "eremostachya" (Greek for "desert stachys"), refers to the plants likeness to those of the genus ''

Stachys ''Stachys'' is a genus of plants, one of the largest in the mint family Lamiaceae.Harley, R. M., et al. 2004. "Labiatae". pages 167–275. In: Kubitzki, K. (editor) and J. W. Kadereit (volume editor). ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ...

''.

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eremostachya Flora of California Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Salvia-stub