Anyone have or know about this (sub) shrub? Is it a good landscape shrub? Is it evergreen? Seems like it would be a good native alternative to rosemary.
Poliomintha incana is a small "evergray" plant, and it has tiny white flowers with a minty fragrance. Seems best for full sun, on well-draining soils. It looks nice trailing over a low wall, such as at the UTEP Chihuahuan Desert Garden / El Paso.
I think it is found natively NW of Bernalillo and in the Four Corners, too.
Another good Poliomintha is P. maderensis: a leafier plant from the Sierra Madre w/ small green foliage and stunning pink flowers (trumpet-shaped)---June to November. (hummingbirds and sphinx moths love it) It seems to be a slightly more heat and drought tolerant version of Salvia greggii, and I have used many specimens of it on a couple sites in Abq, as it performs well. Like S. greggii, its stems are brittle.
TVI Westside (north of Ventana Ranch) has some P. madrensis doing well in a couple less rabbit-prone places, plus I have a small mass of it thriving up at my home.
Like Salvia greggii this time of year, it fades a bit, so it looks best during the March-November timeframe.
I can e-mail you a photo from here, if interested.
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