Bee’s bliss sage is a very fast growing, low spreading shrub with ascending stems that can mound and reach 30 cm tall and up to 200 cm wide. Great for fast slope coverage or inexpensive ground cover. Leaves are pale green with a wrinkled surface and strongly pungent when crushed or brushed against. Whorls of delicate pale purple flowers develop on long ascending spikes in early spring. Like many sages, bees and butterflies find abundant pollen on the flowers.

Overhead irrigation in particular leads to mildew and even drip irrigation will create humid conditions under the dense foliage, leading to problems. It needs little to no water once established and will grow in sand or clay but needs plenty of sun. It can tolerate afternoon shade. Under extreme drought and heat this sage may go dormant but usually it will pull through and bounce back as soon as the winter rains return.