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Harvest Sage (Salvia confertiflora)

Harvest Sage
Confertiflora flowers
Confertiflora foliage
Confertiflora habit

Overview

Salvia confertiflora, known as Harvest Sage or Red Velvet Sage, is a spectacular, tall, tender perennial from Brazil. It produces dense, velvety, rusty-red to orange-red flower spikes (up to 18 inches long) in late summer to fall. The large, heart-shaped, deep green leaves have a distinctive reddish cast on new growth.

Taxonomy

Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Salvia
Species: confertiflora
Synonym: Salvia rufa

Garden Use

Full sun to part shade, rich, moist soil. Grows 5–7 feet tall. Frost tender (zones 9–11); best as annual or conservatory plant. Excellent for late-season color, tropical borders, and hummingbird gardens. Stake tall stems.

Salvias: Salvia splendens: Scarlet Sage, the Classic Red Bedding Annual; Salvia darcyi: Fiery Sage with Bright Red Flowers; Salvia pentstemonoides: Big Red Sage, a Rare Texas Native; Wild Sage (Salvia hians); Bolivian Sage (Salvia exserta); Thistle Sage (Salvia carduacea); Wagner's Sage (Salvia wagneriana); Rock Sage (Salvia pinguifolia); Salvia namaensis – Rare Namibian Sage from Africa; Salvia yunnanensis (Yunnan Sage)

Garden Articles

Salvia madrensis: Forsythia Sage with Yellow Flowers

Salvia patens: Gentian Sage with Intense Blue Flowers

Salvia uliginosa: Bog Sage with Sky-Blue Flowers

Salvia ringens (Rumanian Sage)

Salvia rypara (River Sage)

Salvia lemmonii (Lemmon's Sage)

Scarlet Sage (Salvia splendens): The Classic Red Bedding Plant

Plants

Salvia forsskaolii: Indigo Woodland Sage with Violet Spikes

Cedar Sage (Salvia roemeriana)

Hardy Meadow Sage (Salvia nemorosa subsp. pseudosylvestris)

Scarlet Sage (Salvia splendens)

Eyelash-Leaved Sage (Salvia blepharophylla)

Snowflake Sage (Salvia chionophylla)

Mountain Sage (Salvia regla)