Salvia Big Blue Turkey The slowly spreading patches (3'

The slowly spreading patches (3' wide in 2 years) of Rhynchospora colorata are composed of sedge-like foliage until mid-May (NC)

In good growing conditions

and are adorned in September and October with abundant and attractive fruit clusters (2-4 fruits each) that emerge green and age to purple black

The unspotted flesh colored petioles that support the leaves top out at 18" tall when mature and the snow cone-like flowers are held atop 18" flower stalks in spring

Salvia Big Blue Turkey The slowly spreading patches (3'(aka: Salvia PAS1246577) Salvia 'Big Blue' is a Ball Pan Am Seed introduction of a cross of Salvia longispicata x Salvia farinacea. Although the cross is the same that produced the 1979 introduction, Salvia 'Indigo Spires', this is a dramatic improvement, almost certainly a ploidy (doubled chromosome) shift. For us, it produces a 4' tall x 3' wide, tight clump that includes the dramatic 1' tall floral spikes of dark bluish purple from early June (NC)