#Texas sage full#
Planting sites: Full sun is best for Cenizo, although it will tolerate part-sun. After flowering, seeds form in valved capsules. Several cultivars with color variations exist: white-flowered 'Alba', lavender-blue blooming 'Rain Cloud', pinkish-flowering 'Green Cloud' with green foliage, lavender-blooming 'Sierra Bouquet' with whiter leaves, among them. Typically, rains trigger Cenizo to flower prolifically a reason another common name is Barometer Bush.
It is evergreen, although it may lose some leaves in the winter, and is cold-tolerant to 5 F.įlowers and Seeds: Cenizo has 1/2 to 1 inch long, tubular, 5-lobed, medium-purple flowers that bloom from summer into fall. Cenizo usually grows up to 6 ft tall and 6 ft feet wide, with occasional specimens reaching 8 ft tall. It is an extremely drought- and heat-tolerant West Texas native, found in nature in calcareous, rocky soils. Cenizo is in the figwort family and is not a true sage. The Latin species name frutescens means shrubby. The Leucophyllum genus name comes from Greek: leucos (white) phyllon (leaf), referring to this woody bush’s silvery, gray-green, one inch leaves. Cenizo, Leucophyllum frutescens: Texas sage, a purple-flowering shrub for sunĭescription: Cenizo’s many common names allude to its Texas origins, habit and flower color: Texas Sage, Texas Ranger, Texas Rain Sage, Wild Lilac, Purple Sage, Senisa, and Cenicilla.
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