Texas Gardening: Which salvia?, 1 by Calalily

Calalily wrote:
I went to appraise an estate house today(where the owner died). The house has been empty a while. These were in the shady part of the yard, dry ground, but shaded most of the day. Some had been mowed over recently.
The house is out in the middle of farm fields, sugar cane and sorghum fields on all sides, except the 27 acres that went with this house are hayfields.
The seeds are teeny and the flowers are about half the size of S. coccinea. There were hundreds of these plants, but not many flowers because of the recent mowing.