Santa Barbara Mexican Sage (Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara') is a fast-growing ornamental perennial known for its colorful flower spikes and attractive silvery-gray foliage. This compact plant forms a spreading mound of soft-textured leaves and produces velvety purple calyces with rose-lavender petals, offering long-lasting color from spring through fall.

Ideal for sunny gardens, this perennial shrub thrives in well-drained soil and is drought tolerant once established. Its spreading growth habit and vibrant flowers make it suitable for mixed borders, cottage gardens, pollinator-friendly landscapes, and decorative containers.

Plant Form: Live Starter Plant
Quantity: 1 Live Plant

Plant Condition Disclosure: Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements. Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, flowering, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note: You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. Actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than images shown.

• Live Santa Barbara Mexican Sage starter plant
• Botanical name: Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara'
• Velvety purple and rose-lavender flowers
• Long flowering season
• Attractive gray-green foliage
• Fast-growing perennial shrub
• Suitable for pollinator gardens
• Excellent for borders and landscape beds
• Decorative spreading growth habit
• Ideal for sunny garden locations

Materials:

• Live Santa Barbara Mexican Sage Plant
• Rooted Starter Plant Material

Attributes:
Common Name: Santa Barbara Mexican Sage
Scientific Name: Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara'
Plant Type: Flowering Perennial Shrub
Life Cycle: Perennial
Flower/Fruit Color: Purple and Rose-Lavender Flowers
Sunlight: Full Sun
Soil: Well-Drained Soil
Water: Moderate to Low Once Established
USDA Zone: 8–11

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.