Black and Blue Sage April 30, 2017

My camera does not do these pretty plants justice.  The blue is very, very vivid.  They have unusual root systems with bulbous kind of clear bulb-like places in the roots.  This plants does not bloom all summer like a lot of salvias do, but it puts on a very impressive showing in the spring.  After that it gets a little ratty-looking through the rest of the summer.  I have a very large stand of it along the back of the house.  It spreads.  The calyxes are black and the flowers are blue, hence the name.