Leucophyllum langmaniae
| Leucophyllum langmaniae | |
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| Leucophyllum langmaniae in flower. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Leucophyllum |
| Species: | L. langmaniae
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| Binomial name | |
| Leucophyllum langmaniae | |
Leucophyllum langmaniae is a shrub native of Mexico (Chihuahuan Desert), semi-evergreen, with gray-green leaves of velvety texture. Its shape is branched and compact, forming a rounded mass of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and wide. The flowers are lavender. They appear in the fall, and are even more abundant if drought or heat waves were important.[2]
Leucophyllum langmaniae is called Langman's sage or Rio Bravo sage. However, it is not a true sage and it has no systematics relationship to the genus Salvia.
The specific epithet langmaniae was given in honor of Ida Kaplan Langman.
References
- ^ Henrickson, James; Flyr, L. David (1985). "Systematics of Leucophyllum and Eremogeton (Scrophulariaceae)". SIDA, Contributions to Botany. 11: 140–141.
- ^ Filippi, Olivier (2007). Pour un jardin sans arrosage (For a garden without irrigation) (in French). Arles: Actes Sud. p. 140. ISBN 978-2-7427-6730-4.