Big Red Sage Species Status Assessment

Big Red Sage Species Status Assessment
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Type of document
Report
Facility
A collage of twenty-six photos of animals, staff doing field work, and landscapes that Austin ecological services field office is responsible for.
Austin Ecological Services Field Office
The Austin Ecological Services Field Office is one of four field offices throughout the state of Texas under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Ecological Services program. This program works closely with our partners to conserve the nation's fish, wildlife, plants and habitat by providing...
Conservation Office
Austin,TX
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Program
A rocky shoreline of a river. The water is calm. Mist and green branches line the river.
The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
Program
Baileys Crossroads,VA
Species
A green flowering stem with alternating flower buds and three pink-lobed flowers near the top grows near a brown, still stream.

Big red sage (Salvia pentstemonoides) is a perennial herbaceous plant in the mint family (Lamiaceae) that occurs along streams and narrow canyons in the Edwards Plateau of central Texas. The species was first described in 1848, based on the first documented specimens collected from...

FWS Focus
Species
Kingdom
Plantae
Taxonomic Rank
Species
FWS and DOI Region(s)
Southwest