A picture of two species of Pitchersages, Lepechinia fragrans with its larger lavender purple flowers and Lepechinia hastata with its smaller magenta flowers. Fuzzy foliage and empty sepals of spent L. fragrans dominate the upper right of the image, while soil in dappled shade is visible, out of focus, in the left.

A quick post for Monday of just two pitchersages growing into each other. Fragrant Pitchersage and Baja Pitchersage certainly grow differently but their aromas compliment each other!

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Baja Pitchersage, Lepechinia hastata, blooming in the shade. Narrow, tubular flowers in fuchsia on thin stems are borne on a tall flowering spike. The flowers surround this "flowering spike," a stem which produces almost only flowers and few regular leaves. The regular leaves are blurry, in the background, with a defined spearhead shape in mint green.

I took this picture last month, and as a birthday treat, I'll share this on the weekend! Baja Pitchersage, Lepechinia hastata, is native to Baja California and has naturalized to the big island of Hawaii. Smells like fruit punch.

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