Salvia blepharophylla
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|taxon = Salvia blepharophylla
|authority = Brandegee
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Salvia blepharophylla (eyelash-leaved sage) is a creeping perennial from the Mexican states of San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas. The epithet, blepharophylla, is from the Greek for "with leaves fringed like eyelashes".
It is a rapidly spreading stoloniferous plant with {{convert|2.5|cm|abbr=on}} long signal-red flowers with an orange undertone. The flowers grow in loose whorls spaced about {{convert|2.5|cm|abbr=on}} apart, on {{convert|30|cm|abbr=on}} long inflorescences. In full bloom the plant reaches {{convert|45|cm|abbr=on}} in height.{{cite book|last1=Clebsch|first1=Betsy|last2=Barner|first2=Carol D.|title=The New Book of Salvias|publisher=Timber Press|date=2003|page=46|isbn=978-0-88192-560-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NM0iwB8GrQYC&pg=PA46}}
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