Tom,

You could try Flowers by the Sea, in CA. They stock this wonderful Salvia, but may be currently out of stock. This is a highly reputable place, with many excellent reviews of their mail order.

If no luck, email me as I have a few seeds...they germinate quickly and will flower within months.

Robin.

Hi Robin,

You could try Flowers by the Sea....

I tried them first, it is out of stock :-( I'd sure hate for you to have to send seeds across the pond....

Back in stock at Flowers by the Sea, as of this moment.

Robin is spot on - they grow very quickly from seed.

Should we start calling this one S. vasquezii?

Back in stock at Flowers by the Sea, as of this moment.

Great news Kermit, I'll place my order today :-)

Tom

I think it should be S. vasquezii. I finally got a taxonomic citation on the subject:

A new species and a new subspecies of Salvia (Lamiaceae) from Jalisco and Michoacán, Mexico

Hugh H. Iltis, Jesús Guadalupe González-Gallegos, Theodore S. Cochrane, and José Antonio Vázquez-García

Abstract. A new species and a new subspecies of Salvia, Salvia vazquezii and Salvia vazquezii subsp. tancitaroensis, from the Jalisco-Colima border and Michoacán, Mexico, respectively, are segregated from the S. gravida complex. They are described, illustrated and compared. A key to the three taxa and a translated and expanded circumscription of S. gravida are provided.

Taxonomic publications are the gold standard for settling any questions on these subjects, within the areas covered in the article.

Annie's is calling this S. vazquezii, and so is Cabrillo College, where I recently bought one.

http://www.anniesannuals.com/plants/view/?id=4474

It got knocked over and broken in today's rain storm… I'll try to root the 'cuttings'.

A well received revision of this species was published last year. Technically Salvia gravida is now Salvia vazquezii subsp. vazquezii. We note this new name as a synonym, and will change in a few years when the world in general catches up with the new name. To almost everyone it is and will be for a long time Salvia gravida.

Still gravida in th UK

Still gravida in Australia