''Leucophyllum langmaniae'' is a shrub native of

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(

Chihuahuan Desert The Chihuahuan Desert ( es, Desierto de Chihuahua, ) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. It occupies much of far West Texas, the middle to lower Rio Grande Valley and the lowe ...

), semi-evergreen, with gray-green leaves of velvety texture. Its shape is branched and compact, forming a rounded mass of up to high and wide. The flowers are lavender. They appear in the fall, and are even more abundant if

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or heat waves were important. ''Leucophyllum langmaniae'' is called Langman's sage or

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sage. However, it is not a true sage and it has no

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relationship to the genus '' Salvia''. The plant species name ''langmaniae'' was given in honor of

Ida Kaplan Langman Ida Kaplan Langman was a Russian Empire-born, American botanist. She made two long expeditions in Mexico from 1939 to 1941 and from 1948 to 1949. She is best known as the author of ''A Selected Guide to the Literature on the Flowering Plants of ...

References

Scrophulariaceae Flora of the Chihuahuan Desert {{Scrophulariaceae-stub