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Santa Ana Pitchersage Lepechinia cardiophylla

Plant Type Shrub Height 5 Feet (1.5 Mts) Fragrance Fragrant - Pleasant Dormancy Summer Semi-Deciduous Flower Color Cream, White Flowering Season Spring Summer Fall Winter

Native Status Native - Rare

Site Type Chaparral and Cismontane Woodland in the foothills of Orange and San Diego Counties, often on north-facing slopes Sun Part Shade, Sun Elevation ? 688' - 4217' Annual Precip. ? 12.2" - 22.1" Summer Precip. ? 0.20" - 0.55" Coldest Month ? 47.5° F - 54.3° F Hottest Month ? 72.9° F - 78.9° F Soil Description Usually found on decomposed granite Drainage Fast Cold Tolerance(° F) Tolerates cold to 0° F Companion Plants Best used with other plants of the Santa Ana Mountains, such as Manzanita (Arctostaphylos sp.), Brickell Bush (Brickellia californica), Hoary Leaved Ceanothus (Ceanothus crassifolius), Mountain Mahogany (Cercocarpus betuloides), Miner's Lettuce (Claytonia sp.), Bush Poppy (Dendromecon rigida), Coffeeberry (Frangula sp.), Ashy Silktassel (Garrya flavescens), Tecate Cypress (Hesperocyparis forbesii), Chaparral Beard-tongue (Keckiella antirrhinoides), Foothill Penstemon (Penstemon heterophyllus), Scrub Pine (Pinus attenuata), Inland Scrub Oak (Quercus berberidifolia), Evergreen Buckthorn (Rhamnus ilicifolia), White Flowering Currant (Ribes indecorum), White Sage (Salvia apiana), and Woolly Bluecurls (Trichostema lanatum)

Wildlife Attracted Hummingbirds are highly attracted to the flowers

Popularity Rarely Used

About Santa Ana Pitchersage (Lepechinia cardiophylla) Edit

Lepechinia cardiophylla is a rare species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae (Mint) family known by the common names Santa Ana Pitcher Sage and Heart-leaved Pitcher Sage. It is native to the Santa Ana Mountains of southern California and the coastal mountains of northern Baja California. Few populations of the plant are known and many of them are located in areas that are threatened by development and other human activity. For this reason it is included on CNPS list 1B.2. This is an aromatic shrub with branching stems covered in resin glands. The hairy leaves are heart-shaped to oval-shaped and often toothed along the edges. The raceme flower cluster bears flowers on prominent pedicels. Each flower is a cuplike calyx of hairy sepals around a tubular white to lavender corolla. The corolla is curled back at the mouth into small lips. The fruit is a dark colored, hairless body a few millimeters long which develops within the calyx of sepals.

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Common uses Hummingbird Gardens Nursery Availability Rarely Available

Common Names Heart Leaved Pitcher Sage

Other Names

Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links: Jepson eFlora Taxon Page CalPhotos Wikipedia Calflora

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