Texas Sage 2
This is truly the bush with many names, including Texas Ranger, Texas rain sage, cenizo, Texas silverleaf, Texas barometerbush, ash-bush, wild lilac, purple sage, senisa, cenicilla, palo cenizo, and hierba del cenizo. I'm choosing to just call it "Texas sage" as it is commonly called around where I found it in Mission, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. This plant has a cool feature: when it rains or the soil becomes wet, it will suddenly go into blossom. You can tell if an area has had recent rain just by the presence of these beautiful pink flowers, which look beautiful next to its silver leaves.
- Copyright
- Rich Leighton
- Image Size
- 6000x4004 / 10.3MB
- Keywords
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Angiosperms, Asterids, Eudicots, Hidalgo County, Lamiales, Leucophyllum, Leucophyllum frutescens, Mission, Mission Hike and Bike Trail, Plantae, RGV, Rio Grande Valley, Scrophulariaceae, Texas, Texas Ranger, Texas barometer bush, Texas barometerbush, Texas rain sage, Texas sage, Texas silverleaf, Tracheophytes, ash-bush, autumn, barometerbush, beautiful, beauty, bloom, blooming, blooms, blossom, blossoms, botany, bud, cenicilla, cenizo, color, evergreen, fall, figwort, flora, flower, flowers, fresh, green, hierba del cenizo, native, natural, nature, palo cenizo, pink, plant, plants, purple sage, senisa, shrub, silver, silverleaf, wild, wild lilac, wildflower, wildflowers
- Contained in galleries
- Pink Wildflowers, Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family)
