Southern River Sage

Depending on cold, this may keep its leaves all year or die back during the winter. In colder areas, consider growing it as an annual. It adapts well to semi-shady to shady well-drained conditions.

Herbarium specimens from Marion and Alachua counties were in disturbed "garden" localities - not mapped here.  Not planted, but highly unlikely to have appeared other than through human disturbance.



Used as a ground cover, one of the relatively few Florida plants that both forms a low dense cover and survives shade.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Depending on site, this plant may spread more than preferred, but easy to pull up if it is not wanted

• Aroma, fragrance, Interesting foliage
• Larval host for Fulvous Hairstreak.
• Attracts pollinators