This is a true California native, a plant that has long been important to the Indigenous Peoples of Southern California and Baja. This is not a culinary/edible Sage. Instead, you will want to tend White Sage for its fragrance, for its attractive foliage which starts out green and then turns silvery white, for bees to pollinate, and because this particular Sage is becoming more and more difficult to find. It truly needs purposeful planting and protection. With flowers which many different pollinators visit, you may not notice that it is really only the bees that do the pollinating with this Sage. But this is the case, and its connection to bees is noted in its name, Apiana, with "apis" being Latin for "bee". It is an attractive and important plant. Add it to your outdoor display as a focal piece if you are in a warm enough region, or tend it as a houseplant.
