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Leucophyllum langmaniae 'Lynn's Legacy' (Lynn Lowery's Rain Sage) - A slow growing dense evergreen rounded shrub to 5 feet tall by as wide with small dark gray-green leaves and lavender flowers that are produced in profusion from summer through fall.
Plant in full sun in a well-drained soil and irrigate infrequently or not at all once established - an extremely drought and heat tolerant plant. Cold hardy to 10° F. This is an attractive shrub that is great for a hot location.
Leucophyllum langmaniae is native to the limestone areas at around the 3,500 foot elevation in the mountains around Monterrey and Saltillo in the Chihuahuan Desert of Mexico. The name for the genus comes from the Greek words 'leukos' meaning "white" and 'phyllos' meaning "leaf", in reference to the white foliage of Leucophyllum frutescens. The specific epithet honors 20th century American botanist Ida Kaplan Langman. Common names for the species include Monterrey Rain Sage, Rio Bravo Ranger, Braue River Sage and Texas Sage but these common names are somewhat confusing as these plants are not in the sage family.
The cultivar cultivar 'Lynn's Legacy' was named for the legendary Texas plantsman Lynn Lowery (1917 - 1997), who selected this plant for its profuse and long flowering. It is longer blooming that most other Texas Sage and for this reason has also been called Leucophyllum 'Lynn's Everblooming' in Texas but this plant is not the same as Leucophyllum langmaniae 'Rio Bravo', which is a faster growing plant that does not bloom nearly as much. Our stock plants from Mountain States Wholesale Nursery. We grew this nice plant from 2020 until 2023.
The information displayed on this page about Leucophyllum langmaniae 'Lynn's Legacy' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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