Salvia is the largest genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of plants in the family Lamiaceae

Lamiaceae

The mints, taxonomically known as Lamiaceae or Labiatae, are a family of flowering plants. They have traditionally been considered closely related to Verbenaceae, but in the 1990s, phylogenetic studies suggested that many genera classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae...

, with the number of species estimated to range from 700 to nearly 1,000. Members include shrub

Shrub

A shrub or bush is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height, usually under 5–6 m tall. A large number of plants may become either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...

s, herbaceous

Herbaceous plant

A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground...

 perennials

Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...

, and annuals

Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a year or season. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed...

. There are three main regions of radiation of Salvia: Central and South America, with approximately 500 species; central Asia and the Mediterranean with approx. 250 species; eastern Asia with approximately 90 species.

The naming of distinct Salvia species has undergone regular revision, with many species being renamed, merged, and reclassified over the years. Salvia officinalis (common sage), for example, has been cultivated for thousands of years, yet has been named and described under six different scientific names since 1940. At one time there were over 2,000 named species and subspecies. The most recent revision, by Gabriel Alziar of the Jardin botanique de la Ville de Nice

Jardin botanique de la Ville de Nice

The Jardin botanique de la Ville de Nice , also known as the Jardin botanique de Nice, is a municipal botanical garden located at 78 avenue de la Corniche Fleurie, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France...

, has consolidated the number of different species to approximately 700. As new discoveries are made, the taxonomic list of Salvia species will continue to change.

The first significant accounting of the genus was done by George Bentham

George Bentham

George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

  in 1832-1836, based on a similarity in staminal morphology between Salvia members. His work, Labiatarum Genera et Species (1836), is still the most comprehensive organization of Salvia. Even though there were only 291 species at that time, he still considered the possibility of forming five or six genera, due to differences between certain groups of Salvia. Bentham eventually organized the genus into four subgenera and twelve sections, based on differences in the corolla, calyx, and stamens. In the last 100 years, that system of organization is generally not endorsed by botanists.

The classification of Salvia has long been based on the genus' unusual pollination and stamen structure, which was presumed to have evolved only once. More recently, a study using DNA sequencing of Salvia species has shown that different versions of this lever mechanism have evolved at least three different times within Salvia. This clearly makes the genus non-monophyletic

Monophyly

In common cladistic usage, a monophyletic group is a taxon which forms a clade, meaning that it contains all the descendants of the possibly hypothetical closest common ancestor of the members of the group. The term is synonymous with the uncommon term holophyly...

, which means that members of the genus have evolved from different ancestors, rather than sharing one common ancestor. The DNA analysis has shown that the genus may consist of as many as three different clade

Clade

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s, or branches. The study concluded that Salvia is not a natural genus—some of its branches have a closer relationship to other genera in the tribe

Tribe (biology)

In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...

 Mentheae than to other Salvia species.

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• Salvia abbottii Urb., 1922.
• Salvia absconditiflora Greuter & Burdet, 1985.
• Salvia abyssinica L.F., 1782.
• Salvia abyssinica Hochst. ex Engl., 1891
• Salvia abyssinica Jacq., 1781-86
• Salvia abyssinica R.Br.
• Salvia acaulis Vahl, 1804
• Salvia acetabulosa L., 1767
• Salvia acuminata Ruiz & Pav, 1798.
• Salvia acuminata Vent., 1800.
• Salvia acuminatissima Steud., 1841
• Salvia acutata Brot.
• Salvia acutifolia Ruiz & Pav., 1798.
• Salvia adenoclada Briq., 1898.
• Salvia adenophora Fernald, 1900.
• Salvia adenostachya Juz., 1951
• Salvia adglutinans Lag., 1816.
• Salvia adiantifolia
  Salvia adiantifolia
  Salvia adiantifolia is a perennial plant that is native to China, found growing in forests and in foothills. S. adiantifolia grows on one to a few ascending or erect stems to a height of , with mostly basal leaves. Inflorescences are 4-10 flowered verticillasters, mostly in panicles, with a sky...
  
   E.Peter, 1935.
• Salvia adoxoides
  Salvia adoxoides
  Salvia adoxoides is an perennial plant that is native to Guangxi province in China, found growing in hillside fields at elevation. S. adoxoides grows on red stems to a height of , with mostly basal leaves. Inflorescences are 2-flowered widely spaced verticillasters in racemes, with a white corolla....
  
   C.Y. Wu, 1977.
• Salvia aegyptiaca L., 1753.
• Salvia aequidens Botsch.
• Salvia aequidistans Fernald, 1900.
• Salvia aerea
  Salvia aerea
  Salvia aerea is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan provinces in China, typically growing on hillsides, grasslands, forests, and thickets at elevation...
  
   H. Lév.,1913.
• Salvia aerea var. aerea.
• Salvia aethiopis
  Salvia aethiopis
  Salvia aethiopis is a species of perennial plant known by the common name Mediterranean sage. It is best known as a noxious weed, particularly in the western United States. It is native to Eurasia and was probably introduced to North America as a contaminant of alfalfa seed. It is a weed of...
  
   L., 1753.
• Salvia affinis Cham. & Schltdl., 1830.
• Salvia affinis Leonard, 1927.
• Salvia africana L., 1762
• Salvia africana-caerulea
  Salvia africana-caerulea
  Salvia africana-caerulea is a heavy branched aromatic perennial shrub native to the coast of South Africa, found on coastal dunes and in nearby rocky hills up to 600 m elevation. It grows to 60-90 cm, with round grayish stems covered with hairs that release a strong scent when brushed. The leaves...
  
   L.
• Salvia africana-lutea
  Salvia africana-lutea
  Salvia africana-lutea is a shrubby evergreen perennial native to coastal sand dunes and hills on the coast of the Cape Province in South Africa. It has numerous woody stems growing to more than 1 m in height and width, with sparse grey-green leaves...
  
   L.
• Salvia agglutinans Roem. & Schult.
• Salvia agnes Epling.
• Salvia alamosana Rose, 1891.
• Salvia alariformis L.O. Williams, 1972.
• Salvia alata Epling, 1960.
• Salvia alatipetiolata
  Salvia alatipetiolata
  Salvia alatipetiolata is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing on grassy hillsides at elevation. The plant grows on erect stems up to tall, with numerous basal leaves that are ovate-hastate, ranging in size from long and wide...
  
   Sun, 1960.
• Salvia alba
  Salvia alba
  Salvia alba is an annual or perennial herb that is native to southern Bolivia and northern Argentina, growing in the Tucuman-Bolivian forest belt in disturbed areas of semi-shaded moist woodland. In modern times it has been seen growing at elevation, though there are records of a wider range of...
  
   J. R. I. Wood
• Salvia albicans Fernald, 1901.
• Salvia albicaulis Benth.
• Salvia albicaulis var. dregeana (Bentham) Skan.
• Salvia albiflora M. Martens & Galeotti, 1844.
• Salvia albimaculata
  Salvia albimaculata
  Salvia albimaculata is a perennial shrub that is native to a very small region in Turkey, at 1200 m elevation in the Taurus Mountains. It is under 30 cm tall, and about 25-30 cm wide, with small greenish-gray evergreen leaves. The royal purple flowers, with a distinctive white patch on the lower...
  
   Hedge & Huber-Morath.
• Salvia albo-caerulea Linden, 1857.
• Salvia albopileata Epling, 1940.
• Salvia albopilosa Epling.
• Salvia alborosea Epling & Játiva, 1966.
• Salvia alexandri Pobed.
• Salvia alexeenkoi Pobed.
• Salvia algeriensis
  Salvia algeriensis
  Salvia algeriensis is an annual Salvia native to northeast Morocco and northwest Algeria, found growing at up to elevation. In its native habitat, it grows nearly in height , with bright green ovate leaves about long and wide...
  
   Desf.
• Salvia altimitrata Epling, 1938.
• Salvia altissima Pohl.
• Salvia alvajaca Oerst., 1854.
• Salvia amara Jacq., 1798.
• Salvia amarissima Ortega, 1797.
• Salvia amasiaca Freyn & Bornm.
• Salvia ambigens Briq.
• Salvia amethystina
  Salvia amethystina
  Salvia amethystina is a large aromatic undershrub that is endemic to Colombia. It is found in cloud forests and in bushy ground, often in riparian areas by streams, at elevation. The plant reaches tall, and sometimes taller, with ovate leaves that are long and wide...
  
   Sm., 1790.
• Salvia amethystina subsp. amethystina.
• Salvia amethystina subsp. ampelophylla (Epling) J.R.I. Wood & Harley, 1989.
• Salvia amissa Epling
• Salvia ampelophylla Epling, 1935.
• Salvia amplexicaulis
  Salvia amplexicaulis
  Salvia amplexicaulis is a herbaceous perennial that is native to southeastern Europe. It is a close relative of Salvia nemorosa. Its specific epithet, amplexicaulis, refers to the "stem-clasping" stem leaves which have no stalks. Violet-blue flowers grow closely together in whorls, forming a nearly...
  
   Lam.
• Salvia amplifrons
  Salvia amplifrons
  Salvia amplifrons is an annual or short-lived perennial herb that is endemic to Bolivia, growing at elevation in forest shade on moist ground....
  
   Briq., 1896.
• Salvia anaglypha Briq., 1898.
• Salvia anastomosans Ramamoorthy, 1984.
• Salvia ancistrocarpha Fernald, 1904.
• Salvia anatolica
  Salvia anatolica
  Salvia anatolica is a rare perennial herb that is endemic to a small area between Divriği and Kemaliye in Turkey, growing on stony slopes and oak scrub forest at elevation. It is similar to another Salvia that is endemic to Turkey, S. bracteata....
  
   Hamzaoğlu & A.Duran
• Salvia andreji Pobed.
• Salvia angulata
  Salvia angulata
  Salvia angulata is a herbaceous perennial native to the Caribbean coast from Panama through Colombia to Venezuela. It grows on the sides of streams and wet forests, at elevation....
  
   Benth., 1835.
• Salvia angustifolia Michx., 1803.
• Salvia angustifolia Cav., 1797.
• Salvia angustifolia var. angustifolia.
• Salvia angustifolia var. glabra A. Gray.
• Salvia anhweiensis Migo, 1939.
• Salvia anomala Vaniot, 1904.
• Salvia antennifera Briq.
• Salvia apiana Jeps., 1908.
• Salvia apiana var. compacta Munz.
• Salvia appendiculata
  Salvia appendiculata
  Salvia appendiculata is a perennial plant that is native to Guangdong province in China, growing in forests, open streamsides, and thickets. S. appendiculata grows on erect stems to a height of . Inflorescences are 4-6 flowered widely spaced verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with an purple...
  
   E. Peter, 1935.
• Salvia aramiensis Rech. f., 1950.
• Salvia arbuscula Fernald, 1910.
• Salvia arduinervis Urb. & Ekman, 1926.
• Salvia arenaria St.Hilaire.
• Salvia arenaria var. sellowiana Benth.
• Salvia areolata Epling, 1944.
• Salvia argentea
  Salvia argentea
  Salvia argentea is a biennial or short-lived perennial plant that is native to an area in southern Europe from Portugal to Bulgaria. Its specific epithet, argentea, refers to the silvery leaves.-Description:S. argentea has a large spread of basal leaves that measure wide and high...
  
   L.
• Salvia argutifolia Epling.
• Salvia aridicola Briq.
• Salvia arisanensis Hayata, 1919.
• Salvia aristata
  Salvia aristata
  Salvia aristata is a perennial, root stout, woody plant found in Iran and Turkey....
  
   Aucher ex Benth., 1848
• Salvia aristulata M. Martens & Galeotti, 1844.
• Salvia arizonica
  Salvia arizonica
  Salvia arizonica is a species of sage known commonly as desert indigo sage and Arizona sage. It can be distinguished from its relatives by its triangular, serrated leaves. It blooms copiously in small blue flowers. This is a vigorous sage which propagates via underground spreading runners and...
  
   A. Gray
• Salvia armeniaca (Bordz.) Grossh.
• Salvia arthrocoma Fernald, 1907.
• Salvia articulata Epling, 1936.
• Salvia aspera M. Martens & Galeotti, 1844.
• Salvia asperata Falc. ex Benth., 1848
• Salvia asperifolia Benth.
• Salvia aspidophylla Roem. & Schult., 1822.
• Salvia assurgens Kunth, 1818.
• Salvia atriplicifolia Fernald, 1900.
• Salvia atrocalyx Epling, 1935.
• Salvia atrocaulis Fernald, 1907.
• Salvia atrocyanea
  Salvia atrocyanea
  Salvia atrocyanea is a herbaceous perennial that is native to Bolivia. It grows to tall, with bright blue flowers that are tightly packed on droopy inflorescences as long as . It has large green calyces and blue-tinged bracts....
  
   Epling.
• Salvia atropaenulata Epling, 1939.
• Salvia atropatana Bge.
• Salvia atropurpurea
  Salvia atropurpurea
  Salvia atropurpurea is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing on grassy slopes at elevation. S. atropurpurea grows on one erect stem to tall...
  
   C.Y. Wu, 1977.
• Salvia atrorubra
  Salvia atrorubra
  Salvia atrorubra is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing in forests at elevation. S. atrorubra grows on erect stems to tall, with ovate leaves that are typically long and wide, sometimes slightly smaller....
  
   C.Y. Wu, 1977.
• Salvia aurita
  Salvia aurita
  Salvia aurita is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to South Africa, found growing on streambanks. It grows to tall, with numerous blue, white, and lilac flowers growing in whorls on short racemes....
  
   L.
• Salvia australis Epling, 1937.
• Salvia austriaca
  Salvia austriaca
  Salvia austriaca, or Austrian sage, is a native of high altitudes across Russia and eastern Europe. The plant has a basal rosette of leaves 1 m across, which give off a fetid odor when brushed. The individual leaves are approx. 30 cm long, with indented midrib and veins...
  
   Jacq.
• Salvia austromelissodora
  Salvia austromelissodora
  Salvia austromelissodora is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes....
  
   Epling & Játiva, 1966.
• Salvia avicularis Briq., 1896.
• Salvia axillaris
  Salvia axillaris
  Salvia axillaris is a perennial native to central Mexico from San Luis Potosi to Oaxaca. It is grown in horticulture as a ground cover, as it spreads on shoots that root at the nodes. It reaches about 1 m in height, with a great deal of variety in the leaves, depending on where it is growing...
  
   Moc. & Sessé, 1833.
• Salvia axilliflora Epling.
• Salvia ayavacensis Kunth, 1818.
• Salvia ayayacensis Kunth.
• Salvia azurea
  Salvia azurea
  Salvia azurea is a herbaceous perennial in the genus Salvia that is native to Central and Eastern North America.-Description:...
  
   Lam., 1805.
• Salvia azurea var. grandiflora Benth.

B

• Salvia baimaensis
  Salvia baimaensis
  Salvia baimaensis is a perennial plant that is native to Anhui province in China, growing on hillsides at elevation. S. baimaensis grows on erect stems to a height of , with mostly simple leaves. Inflorescences are 6-flowered widely spaced verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a white...
  
  
• Salvia ballotiflora
  Salvia ballotiflora
  Salvia ballotiflora is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, that is native to Texas in the United States as well as northeastern and central Mexico. Common names include Shrubby Blue Sage and Mejorana.-Description:...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia barrelieri Etlinger
• Salvia bifidocalyx
  Salvia bifidocalyx
  Salvia bifidocalyx is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing on rocky mountains at elevation. S. bifidocalyx has a few slender ascending stems that reach tall, with hastate leaves that are long and wide....
  
  
• Salvia blancoana
  Salvia blancoana
  Salvia blancoana is a prostrate perennial that is native to Spain and northwest Africa. It has narrow blue-green leaves and pale violet-blue flowers. Due to its being highly variable in the wild, and because of similarities to Salvia candelabrum and Salvia lavandulifolia, it has often been confused...
  
   Webb & Heldr. ex Walp.
• Salvia blepharophylla
  Salvia blepharophylla
  Salvia blepharophylla is a creeping perennial from the Mexican states of San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas. The epithet, blepharophylla, is from the Greek for "with leaves fringed like eyelashes". It's a rapidly spreading stoloniferous plant with 2.5 cm long signal-red flowers with an orange...
  
   Brandegee ex Epling
• Salvia blogdettii Chapm.
• Salvia bowleyana
  Salvia bowleyana
  Salvia bowleyana is a perennial plant that is native to China, south of the Yangtze River, growing on hillsides, streamsides, forests, and valleys between elevation. It is used medicinally in China in the same way as Salvia miltiorrhiza and is often confused with it. Salvia miltiorrhiza's common...
  
   Dunn
• Salvia brachyloma
  Salvia brachyloma
  Salvia brachyloma is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China, growing on grassy slopes and forested grasslands at elevation. The plant grows on one to a few stems from tall...
  
  
• Salvia brandegeei
  Salvia brandegeei
  Salvia brandegeei is a perennial evergreen shrub that grows to 3-4 feet in its native habitat. For many years, it was thought to be native only to Santa Rosa Island, one of the Channel Islands of California. In the 1960s and 1970s six colonies were found in Baja California. In cultivation, the...
  
   Munz
• Salvia breviconnectivata
  Salvia breviconnectivata
  Salvia breviconnectivata is an annual or biennial herb that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing along roadsides at elevation. S. breviconnectivata grows on erect stems to tall. Inflorescences are 2-6 flowered widely spaced verticillasters in terminal racemes that are , with a...
  
  
• Salvia brevilabra
  Salvia brevilabra
  Salvia brevilabra is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing on hillsides, grasslands, and in forests at elevation. It grows up to tall, with basal leaves that are ovate to triangular-ovate, long and wide...
  
   Franch.
• Salvia broussonetii
  Salvia broussonetii
  Salvia broussonetii is a shrubby perennial native to ocean cliffs of the Canary Islands, and is found on Tenerife and Lanzarote growing in basalt rock. The plant was named after Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet. It grows about 2 ft tall and wide, with a woody rootstock and sturdy appearance, with...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia buchananii
  Salvia buchananii
  Salvia buchananii is a herbaceous perennial shrub that isn't currently known in the wild, but is presumed to be from Mexico. Seed from a garden plant in Mexico City was taken to England around 1960, where it was grown by Sir Charles Buchanan. It is sometimes called Buchanan's fuchsia sage...
  
   Hedge
• Salvia bulleyana
  Salvia bulleyana
  Salvia bulleyana is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing on hillsides at elevation. S. bulleyana grows on a few branched stems with ovate to ovate-triangular leaves....
  
  

C

• Salvia cacaliifolia
  Salvia cacaliifolia
  Salvia cacaliifolia is a perennial shrub native to the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, and in Guatemala and Honduras, from 5000-8000 feet elevation. It has been available in the UK for many years, after being recognized by William Robinson in 1933...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia caespitosa
  Salvia caespitosa
  Salvia caespitosa is a herbaceous perennial native to rocky limestone and volcanic slopes, at 4600-7900 ft elevation, in central and southern Anatolia. It has been grown in horticulture since the 1950s, typically in rock gardens, due to its dwarf, mat-growing habit...
  
  
• Salvia camarifolia
  Salvia camarifolia
  Salvia camarifolia is a perennial undershrub native to the northern and eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, growing at elevations from . There is also past evidence of a specimen from the Ocaña region. S. camarifolia grows tall, with ovate grey-green leaves that are ...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia campanulata
  Salvia campanulata
  Salvia campanulata is a perennial plant that is native to Xizang and Yunnan provinces in China, along with locations in Bhutan, India , Myanmar, and Nepal. It is typically found growing at elevation in and around forests, on hillsides, and in valleys...
  
  
• Salvia canariensis
  Salvia canariensis
  Salvia canariensis is an erect perennial shrub native to the Canary Islands. It can reach 2-2.3 m in height and 1.5 m width in a single season. The triangular leaves are pale green, and the stems and underside of the leaves are covered with long white hairs. The flowers range from pale purple to...
  
  
• Salvia candelabrum
  Salvia candelabrum
  Salvia candelabrum is sub-shrubby species of the genus Salvia native to Spain. It is sometimes grown as a garden plant and diterpenes have been isolated from its green tissues....
  
  
• Salvia candidissima
  Salvia candidissima
  Salvia candidissima is a herbaceous perennial native throughout western Greece, and parts of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, generally between 2000-6500 feet elevation. Several small stems grow almost horizontally from the roots before bearing upright inflorescences. The plant reaches 3 ft in height and...
  
  
• Salvia cardenasii
  Salvia cardenasii
  Salvia cardenasii is a rare and endangered perennial herb that is endemic to Bolivia, found in only three small populations, making it vulnerable to grazing animals and other damage. It grows on grassy slopes near rock outcrops, at approximately elevation.S. cardenasii grows on dark violet to...
  
   J. R. I. Wood
• Salvia carduacea
  Salvia carduacea
  Salvia carduacea is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to California and Baja California, found up to 1400 m elevation. It responds drastically to its environment, growing anywhere from 15 cm to 1 m in height. The wooly white basal leaves resemble a thistle's, with long spines, while the flowers...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia canescens
  Salvia canescens
  Salvia canescens is a herbaceous perennial that is endemic to the Caucasus mountains. The specific epithet, canescens, refers to the off-white hairs covering the leaves....
  
  
• Salvia castanea
  Salvia castanea
  Salvia castanea is a herbaceous perennial plant discovered in the Yunnan Valley in China in 1904 by plant collector George Forrest. It also grows in Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. The plants used in horticulture today likely came from seed collected from a plant at 14,000 in Nepal, at the base of Mt....
  
  
• Salvia cavaleriei
  Salvia cavaleriei
  Salvia cavaleriei is an herb that is native to Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces in China, growing in forests, on hillsides, and streamsides at elevation. S. cavaleriei is a short, robust plant reaching tall...
  
  
• Salvia caymanensis
  Salvia caymanensis
  Salvia caymanensis is a short-lived perennial plant in the genus Salvia that is endemic to Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. It was thought to be extinct for more than 30 years until it was rediscovered in 2007...
  
   Millsp. & Uline ex Millsp.
• Salvia cedrosensis
  Salvia cedrosensis
  Salvia cedrosensis is an evergreen fruticose perennial plant that is endemic to the western coast of Baja California in Mexico, growing on the Vizcaino peninsula and Cedros Island....
  
  
• Salvia chamaedryoides
  Salvia chamaedryoides
  Salvia chamaedryoides, or Germander sage, is an evergreen perennial native to the high desert of the Sierra Madre Oriental range in Mexico. Its name comes from sharing the running rootstock typical of Teucrium chamaedrys . Spreading freely, it reaches a height of 60 cm when in bloom, with...
  
  
• Salvia chamelaeagnea
  Salvia chamelaeagnea
  Salvia chamelaeagnea is a perennial shrubby salvia from the western coastline of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, typically growing in sandy soil in streambeds, open fields, and roadsides. It can grow up to 6 feet high and 4 feet wide, with .75 inch light violet-blue flowers with a pale lower...
  
  
• Salvia chapmanii Gray
• Salvia chiapensis
  Salvia chiapensis
  Salvia chiapensis is a herbaceous perennial native to the province of Chiapas, Mexico, growing between 7000-9500 feet elevation in cloud forests...
  
   Fernald
• Salvia chicamochae
  Salvia chicamochae
  Salvia chicamochae is an annual herb that is endemic to the Chicamocha canyon, in the far north of Boyacá in Colombia. It is found at elevation, on steep rocky slopes, in open arid bushland....
  
   J.R.I. Wood & Harley
• Salvia chienii
  Salvia chienii
  Salvia chienii is a perennial plant that is native to Anhui and Jiangxi provinces in China, growing on hillsides and streamsides at around elevation. S. chienii grows on erect stems to tall, with simple and compound leaves...
  
  
• Salvia chinensis
  Salvia chinensis
  Salvia chinensis is an annual plant that is native to several provinces in China, growing in forests, and in tufts of grass on hillsides or plains at elevation. S. chinensis grows on stems that are erect or prostrate to a height of . Inflorescences are 6-flowered verticillasters in terminal...
  
  
• Salvia chionophylla
  Salvia chionophylla
  Salvia chionophylla is a low-growing evergreen perennial native to a small area in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. First described in 1907 by Merritt Lyndon Fernald, it was only seen in horticulture beginning around 1996...
  
  
• Salvia chunganensis
  Salvia chunganensis
  Salvia chunganensis is an annual herb that is native to Fujian province in China, typically growing in tufts of grass. S. chunganensis grows on erect stems to a height of . Inflorescences are 2-6 flowered verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a purplish blue or reddish white corolla....
  
  
• Salvia cinica
  Salvia cinica
  Salvia cinica is a perennial plant that is native to the hills of Anhui and Zhejiang provinces in China. S. cinica grows on one to a few erect stems to tall, with stem leaves that are narrowly ovate and smaller terminal leaflets that are ovate to oblong-lanceolate...
  
   Migo
• Salvia clevelandii
  Salvia clevelandii
  Salvia clevelandii is a perennial plant that is native to Southern California and northern Baja California, growing below elevation in California coastal sage and chaparral habitat.-Taxonomy:The plant was named in 1874 by Asa Gray, honoring Daniel Cleveland, a plant collector.-Description:Salvia...
  
   Greene
• Salvia clusii
  Salvia clusii
  Salvia clusii is the binomial name ambiguously used to describe several different sage plants:*Salvia pratensis = S. clusii Timb. *Salvia triloba = S. clusii Jacq....
  
  
• Salvia coahuilensis
  Salvia coahuilensis
  Salvia coahuilensis is a perennial shrub native to the Sierra Madre Oriental in the Mexican state of Coahuila. It's a low-growing evergreen, under 2.5 ft in height and width, with many woody branches growing from the base. It has 1 in long beet-purple flowers, and 1 in long widely spaced, linear...
  
  
• Salvia coccinea
  Salvia coccinea
  Salvia coccinea is a herbaceous perennial in the Lamiaceae family that is widespread throughout the Southeastern United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America...
  
  
• Salvia columbariae
  Salvia columbariae
  Salvia columbariae is an annual plant of the Lamiaceae family. It is commonly called chia, golden chia and desert chia because its seeds are used in the same manner as Salvia hispanica . It grows in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, and Baja California and was formerly an important...
  
  
• Salvia confertiflora
  Salvia confertiflora
  Salvia confertiflora is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to Brazil that will reach 4-6 feet in height and width in one season. It has been used in horticulture in the United States since the 1960s , although it isn't commonly sold at nurseries because of its large size...
  
  
• Salvia coriana
  Salvia coriana
  Salvia coriana is a perennial plant that is endemic to tropical cloud forest in Guatemala, growing at approximately elevation on the northwestern slopes of Pico Zunil in the Sierra Chuatroj range....
  
   Quedensley & Véliz
• Salvia corrugata
  Salvia corrugata
  Salvia corrugata is a perennial shrub native to Columbia, Peru, and Ecuador, growing at 8000-9800 ft elevation. It was brought into horticulture about 2000 as a result of a collecting trip to South America in 1988. All the plants in cultivation today are from six seeds that germinated from that...
  
  
• Salvia coulteri
  Salvia coulteri
  Salvia coulteri is a perennial shrub that grows on dry rocky mountainsides in five Mexican states: Nuevo Leon, Zacatecas, Tamaulipas, Durango, and Hidalgo. It was introduced to horticulture in 1991 from a plant collected at 4000 ft in Nuevo Leon.It grows about 2.5 ft tall and 3 ft wide, with many...
  
  
• Salvia cryptantha
• Salvia cuatrecasana
  Salvia cuatrecasana
  Salvia angulata is a perennial shrub that is endemic to a few small areas in Colombia, growing at elevation on roadsides, streamsides, and disturbedareas....
  
   Epling
• Salvia curticalyx
  Salvia curticalyx
  Salvia curticalyx is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.-Source:* Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
  
• Salvia cyanocephala
  Salvia cyanocephala
  Salvia cyanocephala is an uncommon perennial that is endemic to Colombia, typically found near streams in bushy areas at elevation.It grows up to high, with ovate cordate leaves, and a blue flower from long with an unusual 'gaping calyx'....
  
   Epling
• Salvia cyanotropha
  Salvia cyanotropha
  Salvia cyanotropha is a rare and little known perennial Salvia that is endemic to the Ocaña region and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. It is found in dryland gullies at elevation....
  
   Epling
• Salvia cyclostegia
  Salvia cyclostegia
  Salvia cyclostegia is a perennial plant that is native to forests, grasslands, and hillsides in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China, growing at elevations from . The leaves are broadly ovate to circular, and range in size from long and wide....
  
  
• Salvia cyanescens
  Salvia cyanescens
  Salvia cyanescens is a perennial shrub native to Iran and Turkey, and was introduced to horticulture in 1959. It freely hybridizes in its native habitat with Salvia candidissima....
  
  
• Salvia cynica
  Salvia cynica
  Salvia cynica is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing in forests and streamsides at elevation. The leaves are broadly ovate to broadly hastate-ovate or subcircular, ranging in size from long and wide....
  
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• Salvia dabieshanensis
  Salvia dabieshanensis
  Salvia dabieshanensis is a perennial plant that is native to Anhui province in China, found growing on hillsides and near thickets at elevation. S. dabieshanensis typically grows on a single erect stem to tall. The corolla is yellow or yellowish, from long....
  
  
• Salvia darcyi
  Salvia darcyi
  Salvia darcyi is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to a very small area at 9000 ft elevation in the eastern range of the Mexican Sierra Madre Oriental. Discovered in the wild in 1988, it has since been sold in horticulture under several names...
  
  
• Salvia davidsonii Greenm.
• Salvia dentata
  Salvia dentata
  Salvia dentata is a perennial shrub with short twiggy branches native to western South Africa just north of Cape Town, growing between 2000-5000 ft elevation on dry hillsides, slopes, and streambeds. It was first described by William Aiton in 1789....
  
  
• Salvia deserta
  Salvia deserta
  Salvia deserta is a perennial plant that is native to Xinjiang province in China, and the countries of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It grows in wastelands, sandy grasslands, and along streams in forests at elevations from ....
  
  
• Salvia desoleana
  Salvia desoleana
  Salvia desoleana is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean. It is endemic to four or five specific locations on the island in sunny locations on limestone, granitic, and igneous rock...
  
   Atzei & V. Picci
• Salvia digitaloides
  Salvia digitaloides
  Salvia digitaloides is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan, first collected by Scot botanist George Forrest and named by Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels in Germany in 1912, from Forrest's specimens...
  
  
• Salvia discolor
  Salvia discolor
  Salvia discolor is a herbaceous perennial growing in a very localized area in Peru—it is equally rare in horticulture and in its native habitat. William Robinson wrote of its charms in 1933....
  
  
• Salvia disermas
  Salvia disermas
  Salvia disermas is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to South Africa, found in streambeds, moist forest, grassland, and disturbed ground. It was originally specified as rugosa, but was changed to disermas...
  
  
• Salvia disjuncta
  Salvia disjuncta
  Salvia disjuncta is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, with its range extending into Guatemala. It is found between 7,500-11,000 ft elevation in warm moist mountain habitat...
  
  
• Salvia divinorum
  Salvia divinorum
  Salvia divinorum is a psychoactive plant which can induce dissociative effects and is a potent producer of "visions" and other hallucinatory experiences...
  
  
• Salvia dolichantha
  Salvia dolichantha
  Salvia dolichantha is a herbaceous perennial native to Sichuan province in China, growing at elevation. It grows up to high, with purple flowers that are approximately long. The leaves are cordate-ovate to hastate-ovate, long and wide....
  
   E. Peter
• Salvia dolomitica
  Salvia dolomitica
  Salvia dolomitica is a perennial shrub native to the northeast province of Transvaal in South Africa, typically growing at 900-1500 m elevation. Profusely covered with grey leaves, it grows to 2 m in height and width in the wild, with pale lilac flowers....
  
  
• Salvia dombeyi
  Salvia dombeyi
  Salvia dombeyi is a tender perennial found at approximately 3000 m elevation in Peru, and is popular with gardeners in Bolivia and Peru. In cultivation, and with proper support, this vining sage can climb from 3-6 m. The heart-shaped dark green leaves have a long petiole with short hairs...
  
  
• Salvia dominica
  Salvia dominica
  Salvia dominica Salvia dominica Salvia dominica (Dominica sage, in Arabic ( Maru = مرو or "Khowwekha" = خويخة ), in (Hebrew: מרווה, marva) is a strong-scented perennial shrub found throughout the eastern Mediterranean, especially Jordan Israel,Lebanon and Syria. The branched inflorescence is one...
  
  
• Salvia dorisiana
  Salvia dorisiana
  Salvia dorisiana, Fruit-scented sage or Peach sage, is a perennial shrub native to Honduras. It grows 1-1.3 m tall, and is heavily branched. The leaves have a fruity scent when brushed, and large magenta-pink flowers that bloom in winter. Salvia dorisiana was first described in 1950, and has...
  
  
• Salvia dorrii
  Salvia dorrii
  Salvia dorrii is a herbaceous perennial in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to mountain areas in the western United States and northwestern Arizona, found mainly in the Great Basin Range habitat and southward to the Mojave Desert, growing in dry, well draining soils...
  
  

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• Salvia ecuadorensis
  Salvia ecuadorensis
  Salvia ecuadorensis is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.-Source:* Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
  
• Salvia eigii
  Salvia eigii
  Salvia eigii is a herbaceous perennial native to Israel. The plant grows in a clump 30 cm high by 60 cm wide, with dark green leaves, the largest of which grow up to 30 cm long and 20 cm wide. The flower stalk grows up to 1 m high, with several 20-30 cm inflorescences which hold flowers growing in...
  
  
• Salvia ekimiana
  Salvia ekimiana
  Salvia ekimiana is a perennial plant that is endemic to Central Anatolia in Turkey, growing in open pine forest and alpine steppe at elevation....
  
   F. Celep & Doğan
• Salvia elegans
• Salvia engelmannii
  Salvia engelmannii
  Salvia engelmannii is a herbaceous perennial that is endemic to the limestone hills of central Texas. Salvia engelmannii forms a mound tall with velvety leaves. The flowers are pale lavender, growing on spikes....
  
   Gray
• Salvia eremostachya
  Salvia eremostachya
  Salvia eremostachya is a perennial shrub native to the western edge of the Colorado Desert. It reaches high, with purplish green bracts on flowers that range from blue to rose to nearly white. The flowers grow in whorled clusters, blooming from April to November.- External links:***...
  
   Jepson
• Salvia evansiana
  Salvia evansiana
  Salvia evansiana is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China, found growing on alpine meadows, hillsides, and forests at elevations from...
  
  
• Salvia exserta
  Salvia exserta
  Salvia exserta is an annual herb that is native to the Rio Grande basin in Bolivia, and south into Argentina. It grows in stony ground in dry woodland at elevation....
  
   Griseb.

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• Salvia falcata
  Salvia falcata
  Salvia falcata is a perennial shrub that is endemic to a very small area in NW Cundinamarca in Colombia, growing in dry bushland in a steep river valley at around elevation—unusually low for red-flowered salvias....
  
    J.R.I. Wood & Harley
• Salvia farinacea
  Salvia Farinacea
  Salvia farinacea is a herbaceous perennial native to Mexico and parts of the United States including Texas. Violet-blue spikes rest on a compact plant of typically narrow salvia-like leaves, however, the shiny leaves are what set this species apart from a more most other Salvia, which bear...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia filicifolia
  Salvia filicifolia
  Salvia filicifolia is a perennial plant that is native to Guangdong and Hunan provinces in China, growing in rocky and sandy areas. S. filicifolia grows on erect or slightly ascending stems, with inflorescences that are 6-10 flowered verticillasters in pedunculate racemes or panicles, with a ...
  
  
• Salvia flava
  Salvia flava
  Salvia flava is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to Yunnan province in China, growing in large numbers at 7,500-13,000 ft elevation. It grows on hillsides and along streambanks in gravelly soil with maples, willows, viburnum, berberis, and clematis....
  
  
• Salvia flocculosa
  Salvia flocculosa
  Salvia flocculosa is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.-Source:* Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
  
• Salvia forreri
  Salvia forreri
  Salvia forreri is a perennial plant that is native to five provinces in Mexico: Coahuila, Durango, Sinaloa, Nuevo-Leon, and Zacateca. It grows at elevation. According to Carl Epling, it might be a variety of Salvia arizonica rather than a distinct species....
  
  
• Salvia forsskaolii
  Salvia forsskaolii
  Salvia forsskaolei is a herbaceous perennial shrub endemic to the southeastern Balkan peninsula, ranging from Bulgaria and Greece to the Black Sea coastline of Turkey. It grows up to 6,000 ft elevation in broad-leaved and coniferous forests, meadows, and on steep banks...
  
  
• Salvia fragarioides
  Salvia fragarioides
  Salvia fragarioides is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing on rocky riverbanks at elevation. S. fragarioides grows on ascending or suberect stems to a height of , with basal or subbasal leaves. Inflorescences are 2 to many-flowered widely spaced verticillasters....
  
  
• Salvia freyniana
  Salvia freyniana
  Salvia freyniana is a critically endangered perennial plant that is endemic to Turkey, growing in sandy soil at elevation. It was first collected in 1890, described in 1892 by Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller and not discovered again until 2006...
  
  
• Salvia frigida
  Salvia frigida
  Salvia frigida is a herbaceous perennial that is native to northern Iraq, northwestern Iran, and eastern Turkey growing at elevation. It is often found growing in Anatolia, on woodland edges, meadows, limestone slopes, and crevices. The specific epithet, frigida, refers to the cold regions where...
  
   Boiss.
• Salvia fruticosa
• Salvia fulgens
  Salvia fulgens
  Salvia fulgens is a perennial herb native to the Mexican mountains adjacent to the state of Puebla, growing at 8,700-11,000 ft elevation. It prefers the edge of oak and coniferous woodlands, especially in clearings of Abies religiosa...
  
  
• Salvia funckii
  Salvia funckii
  Salvia funckii is a perennial shrub native to Colombia, growing on rocky slopes in cloud forest from elevation. The plant grows up to tall, with decumbent or ascending stems, and triangular-hastate leaves. The blue flowers are long.- External links:*...
  
   Briq.
• Salvia funerea

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• Salvia gesneriflora Lindl. & Paxton
• Salvia gilliesii
  Salvia gilliesii
  Salvia gilliesii is a perennial shrub native to the Andes mountains in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, growing at elevations up to 10,000 ft. Even though it was named by George Bentham in 1873, it has been only recently that gardeners have discovered the plant. It has been grown and distributed on the...
  
  
• Salvia glutinosa
  Salvia glutinosa
  Salvia glutinosa is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the Lamiaceae family.-Description: Salvia glutinosa grows to approximately tall...
  
  
• Salvia graciliramulosa
  Salvia graciliramulosa
  Salvia graciliramulosa is a shrub that is endemic to the Rio Chico valley of Bolivia, growing in red sandstone outcrops at elevation, often growing in colonies on bare slopes....
  
   Epling & Játiva
• Salvia grandifolia
  Salvia grandifolia
  Salvia grandifolia is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China, found growing in gorges at elevation. S. grandifolia grows on erect stems to tall, with large obovate leaves that are up to long and wide...
  
  
• Salvia greatae
  Salvia greatae
  Salvia greatae is a rare species of sage known by the common names Orocopia sage and lavender sage. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the mountainous high desert of southern Riverside and northern Imperial Counties, mainly in the Orocopia and Chocolate Mountains. It is a member of...
  
   Brandeg.
• Salvia greggii
  Salvia greggii
  Salvia greggii is a herbaceous perennial native to a long, narrow area from southwest Texas, through the Chihuahuan Desert and into the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, typically growing in rocky soils at elevations from 5,000-9,000 feet. It was named and described in 1870 by botanist Asa Gray...
  
  
• Salvia glechomifolia
  Salvia glechomifolia
  Salvia glechomifolia is a herbaceous perennial native to central Mexico at elevations ranging from 7,500-10,500 ft. Glechomifolia means "with foliage like glechoma", which is a genus of creeping and stoloniferous plants in the mint family....
  
  
• Salvia grewiifolia
  Salvia grewiifolia
  Salvia grewiifolia is an undershrub that is native to Bolivia and Brazil, growing in open dry forest and clearings.S. grewiifolia grows high, with petiolate ovate leaves that are by . The inflorescence of short terminal racemes grows long, with 4-6-flowered verticillasters and a red corolla that...
  
   S.Moore
• Salvia guaranitica
  Salvia guaranitica
  Salvia guaranitica is a species of Salvia native to a wide area of South America, including Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina....
  
  

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• Salvia handelii
  Salvia handelii
  Salvia handelii is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing on grassy slopes on limestone mountains at elevation. S. handelii grows on one or two ascending stems to tall. The leaves are broadly ovate-triangular to subcircular, ranging in size from long and wide...
  
  
• Salvia hayatae
  Salvia hayatae
  Salvia hayatae is an annual herb that is native to the foothils of Taiwan. The stems of S. hayatae reach tall, with mostly basal leaves...
  
  
• Salvia heldreichiana
  Salvia heldreichiana
  Salvia heldreichiana is a bushy perennial, native to Turkey and rarely seen in cultivation....
  
   Boiss.
• Salvia henryi
  Salvia henryi
  Salvia henryi is a herbaceous perennial that is native to the U. S. states of Texas, New Mexico, and Nevada, and northern Mexico. It is frequently found growing on rocky slopes and in canyons, along with piñon and juniper. The gray leaves are covered with soft hairs, with bright red bilaterally...
  
   Gray
• Salvia heterochroa
  Salvia heterochroa
  Salvia heterochroa is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing on grassy slopes at elevation. S. heterochroa grows on one or two stems, with elliptic-ovate leaves that range in size from long and wide....
  
  
• Salvia hians
  Salvia hians
  Salvia hians is a mound forming perennial, native to the Himalayas from Pakistan to Bhutan. It is common in Kashmir, growing at on open slopes and forests....
  
  
• Salvia hierosolymitana
  Salvia hierosolymitana
  Salvia hierosolymitana is a herbaceous perennial native to the eastern Mediterranean, with populations in Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank. It typically grows in open fields, rocky soils, and among low-growing native shrubs...
  
  
• Salvia himmelbaurii
  Salvia himmelbaurii
  Salvia himmelbaurii is a perennial plant that is found growing on grassy slopes at elevation in Sichuan province in China. It grows tall, with cordate-ovate leaves that are long and wide. The upper leaf surface is covered with soft hairs, with the underside having hairs especially on the...
  
  
• Salvia hirtella
  Salvia hirtella
  Salvia hirtella is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to the Ecuador province of Cotopaxi, found both north and south of the equator. Its native habitat is limited to high in the Andes mountains, with most plants collected around 12,000 ft elevation....
  
  
• Salvia hispanica
  Salvia hispanica
  Salvia hispanica, commonly known as chia, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to central and southern Mexico and Guatemala. The 16th century Codex Mendoza provides evidence that it was cultivated by the Aztec in pre-Columbian times; it has been said that it was an...
  
  
• Salvia holwayi
  Salvia holwayi
  Salvia holwayi is a herbaceous perennial native to Guatemala at elevations of 3,000–9,000 feet and at similar elevations in the Mexican state of Chiapas, where it frequently makes an understory in mixed pine and oak forests and thickets...
  
  
• Salvia honania
  Salvia honania
  Salvia honania is an annual or biennial plant that is native to fields and wet open areas in Henan and Hubei provinces in China. It grows on erect stems to , with simple or 3-foliolate leaves. Inflorescences are widely spaced 5-9 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes or panicles....
  
  
• Salvia humboltiana
  Salvia humboltiana
  Salvia humboltiana is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.-Source:* Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
  
• Salvia hupehensis
  Salvia hupehensis
  Salvia hupehensis is a perennial plant that is native to Hubei province in China. S. hupehensis is an erect plant, reaching tall, with cordate-orbicular leaves that are ....
  
  
• Salvia hylocharis
  Salvia hylocharis
  Salvia hylocharis is a perennial plant that is native to Xizang and Yunnan provinces in China, growing on grassy slopes, forest margins, and streamsides at elevation. S. hylocharis grows on one or two ascending to erect stems to tall...
  
  
• Salvia hypargeia
  Salvia hypargeia
  Salvia hypargeia is a herbaceous perennial native to Turkey.Leaves are simple to simple basal, linear to linear-oblong, greenish on top and whitish on the underside. Flowers are arranged in verticelles, with 4-8 flowers per verticelle. The corolla is long with a lavender to purplish-blue upper...
  
   Fich. & Mey.

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• Salvia indica
  Salvia indica
  Salvia indica is a species of herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the family Lamiaceae. It is native to a wide region of Western Asia that includes Palestine, Iraq, Iran and Turkey. It was first described by the taxonomist Carl Linnaeus in 1753. It is unknown why he gave it the specific epithet...
  
  
• Salvia interrupta
  Salvia interrupta
  Salvia interrupta is a perennial plant belonging to the family Lamiaceae. It is native throughout the range of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, growing between elevation in shaded arboreal forests and on limestone slopes.-Description:...
  
  
• Salvia involucrata
  Salvia involucrata
  Salvia involucrata is a herbaceous perennial belonging to the family Lamiaceae. It is native to the Mexican states of Puebla, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz, growing in shady places such as the edge of forests...
  
  
• Salvia iodantha
  Salvia iodantha
  Salvia iodantha is a herbaceous perennial native to the mountains of central Mexico, growing between 2,600-10,500 ft elevation. It was described by Merritt Lyndon Fernald in 1900 and began appearing in horticulture in the 1980s....
  
   Fernald

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• Salvia keerlii
  Salvia keerlii
  Salvia keerlii is a herbaceous perennial that is native to Mexico. It freely branches, reaching up to tall and wide. The ovate-lanceolate leaves are grayish, reaching , and aromatic. The lilac flowers grow in whorls on short inflorescences, blooming midsummer to autumn....
  
   Benth.
• Salvia karwinskii
  Salvia karwinskii
  Salvia karwinskii is a perennial shrub native to the moist mountain forests of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, typically growing in or near pine or oak forests at elevation. It is known as a honey-producing plant in those areas, but is rarely seen in private gardens...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia kiangsiensis
  Salvia kiangsiensis
  Salvia kiangsiensis is an annual herb that is native to Fujian, Hunan, and Jiangxi provinces in China, growing in valleys and forests. S. kiangsiensis typically reaches a height of , occasionally taller. Inflorescences are 2-6 flowered widely spaced verticillasters in axillary or terminal racemes...
  
  
• Salvia kiaometiensis
  Salvia kiaometiensis
  Salvia kiaometiensis is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in China, found growing on hillside grasslands at elevation. S. kiaometiensis grows tall, with ovate leaves that are long and ....
  
  
• Salvia kopetdaghensis Kudr.
• Salvia koyamae
  Salvia koyamae
  Salvia koyamae is a perennial rarely found in the wild and native to the Japanese island of Honshu, where it has a close affinity to two other salvia species: Salvia glabrescens and Salvia nipponica...
  
   Makino

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• Salvia lanceolata
  Salvia lanceolata
  Salvia lanceolata is a perennial shrub native to a small area of coast on the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. It is typically found growing in sandy ground at sea level, and on dry hills and flat ground up to 1000 feet elevation. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a pioneer in evolutionary theory, first...
  
   Lam.
• Salvia lanigera
  Salvia lanigera
  Salvia lanigera is a small herbaceous perennial that is native from northern Egypt and Arabia, to the south of Turkey and Iran. It grows in low altitude deserts, in sandy loam and chalky sandstone soils. The specific epithet "lanigera" means "wool-bearing" or "fleecy", referring to the hairs that...
  
   Poir.
• Salvia lankongensis
  Salvia lankongensis
  Salvia lankongensis is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing in grasslands and thickets at elevation. S. lankongensis grows on erect stems to tall. The leaves are elliptic-ovate, typically ranging in size from long and wide. Inflorescences are 6-flowered...
  
  
• Salvia lasiocephala
  Salvia lasiocephala
  Salvia lasiocephala is an annual herb that is broadly distributed throughout the tropical Americas. It grows up to high, with leaves that are long-petiolate ovate-triangular, and long and wide. The inflorescence of terminal racemes has flowers with a pink to pale lilac or blue corolla that is ...
  
   Hook. & Arn.
• Salvia lavandulifolia
  Salvia lavandulifolia
  Salvia lavandulifolia is a small woody herbaceous perennial native to Spain and southern France, growing in rocky soil in Maquis shrubland, often found growing with Rosemary, Lavandula lanata, and Genista cinerea....
  
   Vahl
• Salvia lemmonii
  Salvia lemmonii
  Salvia lemmonii is an aromatic species of sage that is native to the United States and Mexico. It grows to a height of between 30 and 90 cm and has long, ovate leaves which are between 2.5 and 5 cm in length....
  
   Gray
• Salvia leptophylla
  Salvia leptophylla
  Salvia leptophylla is a herbaceous perennial that is native to Texas. As the common name implies, it has slender leaves and stems that give the plant an airy look, reaching tall with ensign blue flowers....
  
   Benth.
• Salvia leucantha
  Salvia leucantha
  Salvia leucantha is a herbaceous perennial that is native to subtropical and tropical conifer forests in central and eastern Mexico. The flowers are usually white, emerging from coloured bracts...
  
   Cav.
• Salvia leucocephala
  Salvia leucocephala
  Salvia leucocephala is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.-Source:* Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
  
• Salvia leucophylla
  Salvia leucophylla
  Salvia leucophylla is an aromatic sage native to the southern coastal mountain ranges of California and Baja California.-Taxonomy:The plant's specific epithet, leucophylla, describes the light grayish leaves...
  
  
• Salvia libanensis
  Salvia libanensis
  Salvia libanensis is a perennial shrub that is endemic to the northwestern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, growing at elevations between . S. libanensis is a vigorous and spectacular plant reaching tall, with ovate leaves that are long and wide, hairy on both surfaces,...
  
   Rusby
• Salvia liguliloba
  Salvia liguliloba
  Salvia liguliloba is an annual herb that is native to Anhui and Zhejiang provinces in China. It grows on hillside forests at elevation. S. liguliloba grows on purple-green erect stems to a height of , occasionally taller. Inflorescences are 2-12 flowered widely spaced verticillasters in terminal...
  
  
• Salvia littae
  Salvia littae
  Salvia littae is a herbaceous perennial native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca, growing at elevations of 8,000-10,000 feet. The plants typically grow in some shade in groups at the edge of moist oak forest, or cloud forest....
  
   Visiani
• Salvia lobbii
  Salvia lobbii
  Salvia lobbii is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador. The plant is named after William Lobb , the English plant collector.-Source:...
  
  
• Salvia longispicata‎ Martius & Galleoti
• Salvia longistyla
  Salvia longistyla
  Salvia longistyla is a Mexican plant species which flowers in mid-autumn. It is not hardy, and is grows best in a container, propagated from cuttings. This salvia has handsome, green foliage, and the flowering stems have long, deep, wine-red flowers....
  
  
• Salvia loxensis
  Salvia loxensis
  Salvia loxensis is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.-Source:...
  
  
• Salvia lycioides
  Salvia lycioides
  Salvia lycioides is a perennial native to a wide area ranging from west Texas and New Mexico in the U.S., south through Mexico to the state of San Luis Potosi. It typically grows on dry limestone hills and canyons above 5,000 feet elevation. It was named in 1886 by Asa Gray, the most respected...
  
   Gray
• Salvia lyrata
  Salvia lyrata
  Salvia lyrata , is a herbaceous perennial in the family Lamiaceae that is native to the United States, from Connecticut west to Missouri, and in the south from Florida east to Texas...
  
  

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• Salvia macrophylla
  Salvia macrophylla
  Salvia macrophylla is a perennial undershrub native to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. In Colombia it is a rare plant, found growing on roadside banks in the south, at elevations from ....
  
   Benth.
• Salvia macrosiphon
  Salvia macrosiphon
  Salvia macrosiphon is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Transcaucasia, and Turkey, where it grows at the edges of fields. It is a perennial herb with a white corolla and ovate nutlets. It flowers in May and fruits from...
  
   Boiss., 1844
• Salvia macrostachya
  Salvia macrostachya
  Salvia macrostachya is a rare herb native to Ecuador and southern Colombia, with no specific information about its native habitat. A woody, clump-forming plant, it grows up to high on thick stems, with broadly ovate leaves that are approximately long and wide. The inflorescence is of very dense...
  
  
• Salvia madrensis
  Salvia madrensis
  Salvia madrensis is a yellow-flowered Salvia native to the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range in Mexico, growing at 4,000-5,000 elevation in warm, wet areas...
  
   Seem.
• Salvia mairei
  Salvia mairei
  Salvia mairei is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China. The plant grows on one to a few stems from tall. The leaves are cordate-ovate to subhastate-ovate, typically ranging in size from long and wide, though they are sometimes larger. Inflorescences are 4-flowered...
  
  
• Salvia marashica
  Salvia marashica
  Salvia marashica is a rare perennial plant that is endemic to Ahır Mountain, near Kahramanmaraş in Turkey, growing on rocky mountain slopes at elevation....
  
  
• Salvia maximowicziana
  Salvia maximowicziana
  Salvia maximowicziana is a perennial plant that is found growing on grasslands, forests, and forest edges in China, at elevation. It grows tall, with circular-cordate to ovate-cordate leaves that are typically long and wide...
  
   Hemsl.
• Salvia meiliensis
  Salvia meiliensis
  Salvia meiliensis is an perennial plant that is native to Anhui province in China, found growing on roadsides at elevation. S. meiliensis grows on erect stems tall. Inflorescences are widely spaced 8 to many-flowered verticillasters in racemes or panicles, with a yellowish corolla that is ....
  
  
• Salvia mekongensis
  Salvia mekongensis
  Salvia mekongensis is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing on hilly grasslands at elevation. S. mekongensis grows on one to five ascending to erect stems, with mostly basal leaves that are usually ovate to oblong-ovate, long and wide.Inflorescences are 2...
  
  
• Salvia melaleuca
  Salvia melaleuca
  Salvia melaleuca is a perennial undershrub that is endemic to the north central region of the Eastern Cordillera in Colombia. It is a close relative of S. rubescens, with a villous and much larger corolla than that species...
  
   Epling
• Salvia mellifera
• Salvia melissodora
  Salvia melissodora
  Salvia melissodora is a woody perennial shrub native to elevations from 4,000-8,000 feet in the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range in Mexico, from Chihuahua in the north to Oaxaca in the south...
  
   Lag.
• Salvia merjamie
  Salvia merjamie
  Salvia merjamie is a herbaceous perennial plant that is native to the east African highlands from Ethiopia to Tanzania, and also across the Red Sea in Yemen. It grows between 6,000 and 13,000 feet elevation in grasslands, forest edges, rocky outcrops, basalt slopes, and fallow fields...
  
   Forssk.
• Salvia micrantha Vahl
• Salvia mexicana
  Salvia mexicana
  Salvia mexicana is a herbaceous shrubby perennial native to a wide area of central Mexico, growing at elevations from 2,600 to 8,500 feet...
  
   L.
• Salvia microphylla
  Salvia microphylla
  Salvia microphylla is a perennial shrub found in the wild in southeastern Arizona and the mountains of eastern, western, and southern Mexico. It is a very complex species which easily hybridizes, resulting in numerous hybrids and cultivars brought into horticulture since the 1990s...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia miltiorrhiza
  Salvia miltiorrhiza
  Salvia miltiorrhiza , also known as red sage, Chinese sage, tan shen, or danshen, is a perennial plant in the genus Salvia, highly valued for its roots in traditional Chinese medicine. Native to China and Japan, it grows at elevation, preferring grassy places in forests, hillsides, and along...
  
  
• Salvia miniata
  Salvia miniata
  Salvia miniata is a herbaceous perennial shrub from Belize and the Mexican state of Chiapas. It typically grows on shaded mountain hillsides at 600 m elevation. The single flowers are clear red, with an orange undertone, about 2.5 cm long. The flowers grow in whorls on inflorescences up to...
  
  
• Salvia misella
  Salvia misella
  Salvia misella is an annual herb growing throughout tropical America, often found in semi-arid regions on disturbed bushy ground, from sea level to . It is similar, and perhaps closely related to, Salvia occidentalis, with a longer calyx and a blue flower.- External links:**...
  
   Kunth
• Salvia mohavensis
  Salvia mohavensis
  Salvia mohavensis is a species of sage endemic to the Mojave Desert. It is a low rounded shrub growing to 1 m tall with small opposite evergreen leaves 1.5-2 cm long, which appear nearly gray due to a covering of fine white hairs. The flowers are blue, about 2 cm long, produced in clusters in the...
  
  
• Salvia moorcroftiana
  Salvia moorcroftiana
  Salvia moorcroftiana is a herbaceous perennial native to the Himalayan mountains from Pakistan to western Nepal, and is especially common in the Kashmir Valley. It grows between 5,000-9,000 feet elevation on disturbed areas and open slopes...
  
   Wall. ex Benth.
• Salvia multicaulis
  Salvia multicaulis
  Salvia multicaulis is a low-growing perennial shrub native to Turkey and bordering countries. Plants grow into mats up to wide, with erect woody stems. The plant reaches tall, though the flowering stems reach...
  
  
• Salvia muelleri Epling
• Salvia muirii
  Salvia muirii
  Salvia muirii is an evergreen perennial shrub native to limited areas east of the Cape of Good Hope and Mossel Bay on the southern coast of South Africa. It grows in an area influenced by the climate of the Indian Ocean, on rolling hills between 200 and 1000 feet elevation. The plant was first...
  
    L. Bol.
• Salvia munzii
  Salvia munzii
  Salvia munzii is a species of sage known by the common name Munz's sage . It is native to northern Baja California, Mexico, and it can be found in a few locations just north of the border in San Diego County, California...
  
   Epling

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• Salvia namaensis
  Salvia namaensis
  Salvia namaensis is an evergreen perennial shrub native to a limited area in Namibia and a wide area of South Africa. It is typically found growing on rocky slopes, shales, limestone hills, and sandy soils at 1,000 to 5,000 feet elevation...
  
   Schinz
• Salvia nanchuanensis
  Salvia nanchuanensis
  Salvia nanchuanensis is an annual or biennial herb that is native to Hubei and Sichuan provinces in China, growing on riverbanks, rocky slopes, and open areas at elevation. S. nanchuanensis grows on erect stems to tall...
  
  
• Salvia napifolia
  Salvia napifolia
  Salvia napifolia is a herbaceous perennial native to Turkey and islands off its west coast, growing at elevations between sea level and 3,000 feet. Its natural habitat is maquis shrubland, rocky slopes, and disturbed roadsides...
  
   Jacq.
• Salvia nemorosa
  Salvia nemorosa
  Salvia nemorosa is a hardy herbaceous perennial plant native to a wide area of central Europe and Western Asia.It is an attractive plant that is easy to grow and propagate, with the result that it has been passed around by gardeners for many years...
  
   L.
• Salvia nilotica
  Salvia nilotica
  Salvia nilotica is a perennial shrub growing in the eastern African highlands from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe, between 900-3600 m elevation. It has many creeping rhizomes and stems about 60-90 cm tall. The small flowers, in whorls of 6-8, range from purple to rose to white....
  
  
• Salvia nipponica
  Salvia nipponica
  Salvia nipponica is a perennial plant that is native to Taiwan. Stems grow from , with triangular-ovate to triangular-hastate leaves that are typically by . The flowers have many hairs, with a yellow corolla that has a red spot....
  
   Miq.
• Salvia nubicola
  Salvia nubicola
  Salvia nubicola is a herbaceous perennial native to a wide region that includes Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, southwest Asia, and Europe. The plant grows at elevations of in dry forests, especially Pinus wallichiana, often growing in large colonies in woodland clearings...
  
   Wall. ex Sweet
• Salvia nubigena
  Salvia nubigena
  Salvia nubigena is a perennial undershrub endemic to a very small region in the Rio Concavo Valley in Colombia. It if found on rough bushland on boulder covered slopes, growing at elevations from ....
  
   J.R.I. Wood & Harley
• Salvia nutans L.

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• Salvia occidentalis
  Salvia occidentalis
  Salvia occidentalis is a small annual herb native to the Caribbean, Mexico, and South America, typically growing in damp bushy areas between elevation. It bears long pale pink flowers....
  
   Sw.
• Salvia officinalis L.
• Salvia omeiana
  Salvia omeiana
  Salvia omeiana is a perennial plant that is native to forest edges and hillsides in Sichuan province in China, growing at elevation. It is a robust erect-growing plant reaching , with broad cordate-ovate to hastate-ovate leaves that are long and wide. Inflorescences are raceme-panicles, with a ...
  
  
• Salvia ophiocephala
  Salvia ophiocephala
  Salvia ophiocephala is an annual herb that is endemic to Bolivia—as of 2007 there was only known to be one small colony growing in a Yungas forest valley at elevation. The site is close to settlements and gold-mining, and therefore the plant is considered critically endangered...
  
   J. R. I. Wood
• Salvia oppositiflora
  Salvia oppositiflora
  Salvia oppositiflora is a perennial native to Peru, growing at high elevations—7,000 to 12,000 feet. It was collected in 1798 by Hipólito Ruiz López and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez and later described in Flora of Peru....
  
   Ruiz & Pav.
• Salvia orbignaei
  Salvia orbignaei
  Salvia orbignaei is an undershrub that is endemic to Bolivia, growing on rocky slopes with other low shrubs at elevation. It frequently appears following landslides or road building.S. orbignaei grows high, with subsessile leaves that are by...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia orthostachys
  Salvia orthostachys
  Salvia orthostachys is a perennial shrub endemic to Colombia, growing in dry country on roadsides, rocky banks, and stony bushland. The plant reaches up to high, with leaves that are hairy on both surfaces. The red flower is up to long, with a short upper lip....
  
   Epling
• Salvia oxyphora
  Salvia oxyphora
  Salvia oxyphora is a herbaceous perennial that is endemic to the foothills and lower eastern slopes of the Andes in Bolivia. It is found growing in disturbed scrub on slopes above streams in moist subtropical forest at elevation....
  
   Briq.

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• Salvia pachyphylla
  Salvia pachyphylla
  Salvia pachyphylla is a perennial shrub native to California, Nevada, and Arizona. In California, it grows between elevation on dry rocky slopes, blooming from July to September. It reaches high, with blue-violet flowers, rarely rose, growing in dense clusters.- External links:****...
  
   Epling
• Salvia palaestina
  Salvia palaestina
  Salvia palaestina is a herbaceous perennial native to a wide area including what was historically known as Palestine, and is also native to Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, the Sinai peninsula and northeastern Egypt...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia paohsingensis
  Salvia paohsingensis
  Salvia paohsingensis is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing in forests at elevation. It is related to Salvia maximowicziana. S. paohsingensis grows on slender, ascending to suberect stems, from tall....
  
  
• Salvia paramiltiorrhiza
  Salvia paramiltiorrhiza
  Salvia paramiltiorrhiza is a perennial plant that is native to Anhui and Hubei provinces in China, growing on hillsides and streamsides. S. paramiltiorrhiza has one to a few erect stems that reach tall. Inflorescences are 4-6 flowered widely spaced verticillasters, with a corolla that ranges...
  
  
• Salvia parryi Gray
• Salvia patens
  Salvia patens
  Salvia patens, called Gentian sage, is native to a wide area of central Mexico. It is a herbaceous perennial.-Description:Salvia patens is tuberous, and easily lifted for overwintering in a greenhouse. The more common varieties reach 0.3 - 0.6 m tall and wide, and are covered with hastate shaped...
  
   Cav.
• Salvia pauciflora
  Salvia pauciflora
  Salvia pauciflora is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing in and around forests at elevation. It grows on 2-4 slender unbranched stems with widely spaced leaves...
  
  
• Salvia pauciserrata
  Salvia pauciserrata
  Salvia pauciserrata is a variable and widely distributed species of Salvia native to Peru, north to Venezuela and Costa Rica. It is found in a wide variety of habitats. It reaches tall. The inflorescence is of terminal racemes, with a large red corolla that is long....
  
  
• Salvia pentstemonoides
  Salvia pentstemonoides
  Salvia pentstemonoides is a herbaceous perennial that is rare in nature and native to only a few locations in Texas, including the Edwards Plateau. The plant remains endangered due to destruction of habitat and browsing by deer...
  
   Kunth & Bouché
• Salvia peregrina
  Salvia peregrina
  Salvia peregrina is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist mountains.-Source:* Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
  
• Salvia personata
  Salvia personata
  Salvia personata is an annual herb that is native to valleys and foothills in the Andes of Bolivia and northern Argentina. It grows in disturbed bushy habitat at elevation.S...
  
   Epling
• Salvia piasezkii
  Salvia piasezkii
  Salvia piasezkii is an herb that is native to Gansu and Shaanxi provinces in China. It grows approximately tall. Inflorescences are 6-flowered widely spaced verticillasters in few branched panicles. The corolla is purple, and approximately ....
  
  
• Salvia pinguifolia
  Salvia pinguifolia
  Salvia pinguifolia is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to North America, growing in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Its natural habitat is montane desert. Leaf shape is ovate-deltoid to oblong elliptical. S...
  
   Woot. & Standl.
• Salvia plebeia
  Salvia plebeia
  Salvia plebeia is an annual or biennial herb that is native to a wide region of Asia. It grows on hillsides, streamsides, and wet fields from sea level to . S. plebeia grows on erect stems to a height of tall, with elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate leaves...
  
  
• Salvia plectranthoides
  Salvia plectranthoides
  Salvia plectranthoides is an annual or biennial plant that is native to Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces in China, along with Bhutan and Sikkim in India. It is typically found growing on hillsides, along valley streams, and forests at elevation. S. plectranthoides...
  
  
• Salvia pogonochila
  Salvia pogonochila
  Salvia pogonochila is a perennial plant that is native to the Sichuan province in China, growing in alpine meadows at elevation. S. pogonochila grows on ascending stems to tall. The leaves are broadly ovate to triangular-hastate, ranging in size from long and wide. Inflorescences are in...
  
  
• Salvia polystachya
  Salvia polystachya
  Salvia polystachya is a herbaceous perennial native to central Mexico and south into Guatemala and Panama, typically growing at elevations from 5,000-10,000 feet in mild climates where there is some summer rain. It is rarely seen in horticulture....
  
   Ortega
• Salvia potaninii
  Salvia potaninii
  Salvia potaninii is a herbaceous perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing in thickets at elevation. It grows high, with leaves that are ovate to oblong-ovate, long and wide. The upper surface of the leaf is covered with fine hairs, with the underside having...
  
   Krylov
• Salvia potus Epling
• Salvia pratensis
  Salvia pratensis
  Salvia pratensis is a herbaceous perennial in the family Lamiaceae, native to Europe, western Asia and northern Africa. The specific epithet pratensis refers to its tendency to grow in meadows...
  
  
• Salvia prattii
• Salvia prionitis
  Salvia prionitis
  Salvia prionitis is an annual herb that is native to Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces in China, found growing on hillsides and grassy places at elevation. S. prionitis grows on erect stems tall, with mostly basal leaves. Inflorescences are widely spaced 6-14...
  
  
• Salvia prunelloides
  Salvia prunelloides
  Salvia prunelloides is a herbaceous perennial native to the Mexican states of Puebla and Mexico State. It was named in 1817 by Carl Sigismund Kunth for its similarity to Prunella vulgaris....
  
   Kunth
• Salvia przewalskii
  Salvia przewalskii
  Salvia przewalskii is a herbaceous perennial plant native to the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Xizang, and Yunnan, typically growing along stream banks, forest edges, among shrubs, and on granitic hillsides...
  
   Maxim.
• Salvia pseudomisella
• Salvia pulchella
• Salvia purpurea
  Salvia purpurea
  Salvia purpurea is a herbaceous perennial that is native to several Mexican states and south into Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. It was first described by Antonio José Cavanilles in 1793, though its use in horticulture is only recent and it is rarely sold by nurseries.Salvia purpurea reaches...
  
   Cav.

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• Salvia radula
  Salvia radula
  Salvia radula is a herbaceous perennial native to South Africa, growing at elevations from . The plant grows to tall. Leaves are wooly and white underneath. It is closely related to Salvia disermas.-External links:*...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia recognita
  Salvia recognita
  Salvia recognita is a woody-based perennial that is endemic to central Turkey, typically growing in light shade at the base of cliffs, at elevations of less than 4,000 feet....
  
   Fisch. & Meyer
• Salvia recurva
  Salvia recurva
  Salvia recurva is a woody-based perennial native to the cloud forests of Central America, limited to the northern slopes of Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Guatemala at elevations around . It grows where there is year-round warmth and abundant moisture in the air and on the forest floor...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia reflexa
  Salvia reflexa
  Salvia reflexa is a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico and introduced to Argentina, Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.It reaches 4-28 inches in height with small, opposite, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic leaves up to two inches...
  
   Hornem.
• Salvia regla
  Salvia regla
  Salvia regla is a deciduous perennial that is native to a small area of the Chisos Mountains in west Texas and a large area of Mexico, in the states of Coahuila, Durango, and Oaxaca. The specific epithet is probably from the town of Regla in the state of Hidalgo. It is also referred to as the...
  
   Cav.
• Salvia repens
  Salvia repens
  Salvia repens is a herbaceous perennial native to eastern South Africa, growing at elevations between 1,500-8,000 feet in open country and amongst shrubs. It has also adapted to grassland, grassy slopes, and shale banks...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia reptans
  Salvia reptans
  Salvia reptans is a widely distributed herbaceous perennial native to the mountains of the Trans-Pecos in Texas, and in Mexico and Guatemala, typically growing in dry stream beds and gravelly soils. It was introduced into horticulture in the 19th century and was previously known as S. angustifolia...
  
   Jacq.
• Salvia ringens
  Salvia ringens
  Salvia ringens is a hardy herbaceous perennial native to the southern and eastern parts of the Balkan Peninsula, with many colonies growing on Mount Olympus, the traditional "home of the gods", at altitudes up to . Elsewhere, it grows in scrub and coniferous woodland between and...
  
   Sibth. & Sm.
• Salvia riparia Kunth
• Salvia roborowskii
  Salvia roborowskii
  Salvia roborowskii is an annual or sometimes biennial herb that is native to a wide area that includes Tibet, Sikkim, and five provinces in China, growing on wet stream banks, grasslands, and hillsides between 8,000-12,000 feet elevation....
  
   Maxim.
• Salvia roemeriana
  Salvia roemeriana
  Salvia roemeriana is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to the Edwards Plateau in Texas, along with parts of Arizona, and several provinces in Mexico. The epithet honors German geologist Ferdinand von Roemer, who lived in Texas from 1845 to 1847 and became known as the "father of Texas geology"....
  
   Scheele
• Salvia rubescens
  Salvia rubescens
  Salvia rubescens is a herbaceous perennial native to the state of Mérida in Venezuela. The University of California Botanical Garden had been growing it since 1993 from a plant collected that year in Venezuela, only identifying it as S...
  
   Kunth
• Salvia rubiflora Epling
• Salvia rypara
  Salvia rypara
  Salvia rypara is a herbaceous perennial native to Argentina and Bolivia—due to its being very adaptable it is reported to be naturalized in Mexico and possibly Central America. It prefers stream bank habitats, as the specific epithet rypara implies. It also grows in weedy thickets, thriving at...
  
   Briq.

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• Salvia sagittata
  Salvia sagittata
  Salvia sagittata is a herbaceous perennial native to the Andes Mountains, growing at elevations from 9,500-10,500 feet. The specific epithet refers to the arrow-shaped leaves. The plant was collected and named in 1798 by Hipólito Ruiz López and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, two Spaniards who were...
  
   Ruiz & Pav.
• Salvia scabra
  Salvia scabra
  Salvia scabra is a herbaceous perennial native to the southeastern strand of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, growing on sandy shores, coastal brush, and hilly slopes up to an elevation of 600 feet. It was described and named by Carl Linnaeus in 1781. The leaves and an extract from the roots...
  
   L.
• Salvia scapiformis
  Salvia scapiformis
  Salvia scapiformis is an herb that is native to several provinces in China, along with Taiwan and the Philippines, growing at elevation. S. scapiformis grows on slender stems to tall, with mostly simple leaves that are basal or subbasal, rarely growing on the stem. Inflorescences are widely...
  
  
• Salvia schizocalyx
  Salvia schizocalyx
  Salvia schizocalyx is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, growing at elevation. The plant grows on one to a few unbranched upright stems with widely spaced leaves, reaching approximately tall...
  
  
• Salvia schizochila
  Salvia schizochila
  Salvia schizochila is a perennial plant that is native to the Yunnan province in China, found growing in forests at elevation. S. schizochila grows on erect, unbranched stems to tall. The leaves are broadly cordate-ovate, ranging in size from long and wide. Inflorescences are of dense racemes,...
  
  
• Salvia sclarea
• Salvia scutellarioides
  Salvia scutellarioides
  Salvia scutellarioides is an evergreen perennial native to the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, Columbia, and Peru, growing at elevations from 3,300 to 10,000 feet in mild climates where there is year-round moisture. Even though it was described by Carl Sigismund Kunth in 1817, as of 2002 it was still...
  
   Kunth
• Salvia semiatrata
  Salvia semiatrata
  Salvia semiatrata is a perennial native to the Sierra Madre del Sur in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, growing at elevations of or higher. It prefers the edges of pine forests, and is also found on limestone cliffs and banks and in cactus scrub habitats that are dry and exposed.Salvia semiatrata...
  
   Zucc.
• Salvia serotina
  Salvia serotina
  Salvia serotina is a herbaceous annual that is native to Florida, Bermuda, the West Indies, and Mexico south through Panama, growing on moist ground and as a weed in cultivated fields. It is a trailing or bushy plant reaching tall, with aromatic broadly ovate leaves that have scalloped edges, ...
  
   L.
• Salvia serpyllifolia
  Salvia serpyllifolia
  Salvia serpyllifolia is a woody perennial endemic to a small area in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi. It was described by Merritt Lyndon Fernald in 1900, who gave it the epithet serpyllifolia because of its small, shiny leaves—similar to the leaves of Thymus serpyllum...
  
   Fernald
• Salvia sessei
  Salvia sessei
  Salvia sessei is a perennial that grows in several states in central Mexico between 600 and 7,000 feet elevation on the edge of pine forests and woodlands. It was first collected by the Spanish botanist Martín Sessé y Lacasta and the Mexican-born Spanish naturalist José Mariano Mociño...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia shannoni
  Salvia shannoni
  Salvia shannoni is a tender perennial native to the Mexican state of Chiapas, and to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, growing in or near pine forests at approximately 3,000-5,000 feet elevation. Its native habitat receives regular moisture in the form of fog, rain, and streams, with mild...
  
   Donn.Sm.
• Salvia sikkimensis
  Salvia sikkimensis
  Salvia sikkimensis is a perennial plant that is native to Xizang province in China, along with locations in Bhutan and India . It is typically found growing in and around forests, on hillsides, and streamsides at elevation....
  
  
• Salvia sinica
• Salvia sinaloensis
  Salvia sinaloensis
  Salvia sinaloensis is a perennial native only to the Mexican state of Sinaloa, most often in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental range. It has been available to gardeners since the 1980s. It has many graceful 1 ft. long stems, grows rapidly, and spreads on underground runners into a clump...
  
  
• Salvia smithii
  Salvia smithii
  Salvia smithii is an aromatic perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, found growing on riverbanks, valleys, and hillsides at elevation. S. smithii grows to tall, with leaves that are broadly cordate-ovate to ovate-hastate, ranging in size from long and wide.Inflorescences...
  
  
• Salvia somalensis
  Salvia somalensis
  Salvia somalensis is a perennial shrub endemic to a limited range and elevation in Somalia. It grows at elevations from to , typically in forest clearings or edges as a common or dominant subshrub....
  
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• Salvia sonchifolia
  Salvia sonchifolia
  Salvia sonchifolia is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing in damp forest humus on limestone mountains at elevation. S. sonchifolia grows on erect stems to tall, with oblong leaves that are long and wide....
  
  
• Salvia sonomensis
  Salvia sonomensis
  Salvia sonomensis is a low-growing perennial plant that is endemic to California.-Description:Salvia sonomensis, as suggested by its common name, is a mat-forming subshrub with stems growing up to about tall, with inflorescences that stand above the foliage. The species is highly variable in...
  
  
• Salvia sordida
  Salvia sordida
  Salvia sordida is a rare perennial shrub endemic to a very small area in Colombia, along an old road from Bogota to La Caro, growing at elevation in scrub next to streams....
  
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• Salvia spathacea
  Salvia spathacea
  Salvia spathacea is a herbaceous plant species with woody bases and a somewhat sprawling habit with upright flowering stems. Its a member of the large Salvia or sage genus in Lamiaceae, or the mint family. This fruity scented Salvia blooms in March to May with typically dark rose-lilac colored...
  
  
• Salvia splendens
  Salvia splendens
  Salvia splendens is a tender herbaceous perennial that is native to Brazil, growing at elevation where it is warm year-round and with high humidity. The native plant, rarely seen in cultivation, reaches tall. Smaller selections are very popular as bedding plants, seen in shopping malls and...
  
  
• Salvia sprucei
  Salvia sprucei
  Salvia sprucei is a herbaceous perennial in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador, growing at elevation or higher in thick scrub on steep slopes. It was named in 1898 by botanist John Isaac Briquet for the British plant collector Richard Spruce...
  
  
• Salvia staminea
  Salvia staminea
  Salvia staminea is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to a wide area in Asia Minor that includes Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, and Iran, where it grows at elevations from to . It is typically found growing in alpine meadows, screes, and cliffs, sometimes growing with scrub oak. Due to the wide...
  
   Montbr. & Aucher ex Benth.
• Salvia stenophylla
  Salvia stenophylla
  Salvia stenophylla is a perennial shrub native to a wide area in South Africa, growing on grassy or stony slopes, and in open countryside or among shrubs. It has been used traditionally as a disinfectant by burning it in huts after sickness, and it is also mixed with tobacco for smoking...
  
   Burch. ex Benth.
• Salvia subincisa Benth.
• Salvia subpalmatinervis
  Salvia subpalmatinervis
  Salvia subpalmatinervis is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan province in China, found growing in thickets, forests, and hilly grasslands at elevation. S. subpalmatinervis grows on one to three erect stems to tall, with mostly basal leaves that are ovate to circular.Inflorescences are 2-6...
  
  
• Salvia substolonifera
  Salvia substolonifera
  Salvia substolonifera is an annual plant that is native to Fujian, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, and Zhejiang provinces in China, growing on streamsides, crevices, and forests at sea level to elevation....
  
  
• Salvia x superba
• Salvia summa A. Nels.
• Salvia x sylvestris

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• Salvia taraxacifolia
  Salvia taraxacifolia
  Salvia taraxacifolia is a herbaceous perennial shrub that is native only to southwest Morocco, growing in the Atlas Mountains at elevations ranging from to . Very adaptable, it grows on limestone slopes, forest clearings, and rocky riversides. It has no close allies in the genus Salvia...
  
   Coss. & Bal. ex Hook.
• Salvia texana
  Salvia texana
  Salvia texana is a herbaceous perennial native to the U.S. states of Texas and New Mexico, and in northern Mexico, typically found growing in limestone soils. It grows tall, with hairy lanceolate-oblanceolate leaves. The flowers are purple-blue...
  
   Torr.
• Salvia thermarum
  Salvia thermarum
  Salvia thermarum is a perennial native to South Africa, discovered in 1998 by Ernst van Jaarsveld of Cape Town's Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden...
  
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• Salvia thomasiana Urban
• Salvia thymoides
  Salvia thymoides
  Salvia thymoides is an evergreen perennial shrub native to a small region in Mexico on the border of Oaxaca and Puebla states, growing at elevations from to . Its native habitat is cloud forest, with the mountains catching regular moisture in the form of fog and rain...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia tiliifolia
  Salvia tiliifolia
  Salvia tiliifolia, commonly known as Lindenleaf Sage, or Tarahumara chia, is an herbaceous Lamiaceae annual that grows up to tall with a wide distribution....
  
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• Salvia tingitana
  Salvia tingitana
  Salvia tingitana is an herbaceous perennial in the family Lamiaceae. It has a long and enigmatic history—it has been grown and described since the 17th century without any certainty about its origin...
  
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• Salvia tolimensis
  Salvia tolimensis
  Salvia tolimensis is a perennial shrub endemic to a very small region in Colombia growing on streamsides, scrublands, and forest edges in wet conditions at elevation. The plant is a vigorous undershrub, about high, with narrow ovate leaves that are long and wide. The purple flowers are long....
  
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• Salvia trachyphylla
  Salvia trachyphylla
  Salvia trachyphylla is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.-Source:...
  
  
• Salvia transsylvanica
  Salvia transsylvanica
  Salvia transsylvanica is a herbaceous perennial native to a wide area from north and central Russia to Romania. It was described and named in 1853 by botanist Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, with the specific epithet referring to the Transylvanian Alps located in central Romania...
  
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• Salvia tricuspis
  Salvia tricuspis
  Salvia tricuspis is an annual or biennial plant that is native to Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, and Shanxi provinces in China, found growing in foothills, riverbanks, streamsides, and grasslands at elevation. S...
  
  
• Salvia trijuga
  Salvia trijuga
  Salvia trijuga is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan, Sichuan, and Xizang provinces in China, found growing on hillsides, streamsides, grasslands, thickets, forests, and valleys at elevation. S...
  
  
• Salvia tubiflora
  Salvia tubiflora
  Salvia tubiflora is a perennial native to a small area of western Peru and northern Chile near the tropic of Capricorn, growing at elevations from to ....
  
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• Salvia uliginosa
  Salvia uliginosa
  Salvia uliginosa is a herbaceous perennial native to southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. It was described and named by botanist George Bentham for its typical habitat "of swamps and marshes", or "uliginosa"...
  
   Benth.
• Salvia umbratica
  Salvia umbratica
  Salvia umbratica is an annual or biennial plant that is native to Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Hubei, Shaanxi, and Shanxi provinces in China, found growing on hillsides and valleys at elevation. S...
  
  
• Salvia unguella
  Salvia unguella
  Salvia unguella is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is native to Ecuador.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.-Source:* Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....
  
  
• Salvia uribei
  Salvia uribei
  Salvia uribei is a herbaceous perennial that is endemic to a single small valley between Tunja and Cucaita in Colombia. It grows in dry scrub, along with Salvia palifolia and Peperomia species, between elevation. It was named after Lorenzo Uribe Uribe, who discovered the plant, and has made...
  
   J.R.I. Wood & Harley
• Salvia urica
  Salvia urica
  Salvia urica is a herbaceous perennial native to the mountains of Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and Chiapas, Mexico. It is reportedly most common in Guatemala, where it grows in a wide variety of habitats from elevation, in a mild and moist climate...
  
   Epling
• Salvia urticifolia
  Salvia urticifolia
  Salvia urticifolia is a herbaceous perennial native to the southeastern United States. S. urticifolia is an erect plant that reaches tall. Flowers, with a corolla that is approximately long, are blue or purple , growing in panicles on short pedicels...
  
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• Salvia vanhouttei
• Salvia vaseyi
  Salvia vaseyi
  Salvia vaseyi is a perennial native to the western Colorado Desert. Flowers grow in compact clusters on spikes. The flowers are white, with whitish bracts, calyx, and leaves, blooming from April to June. The specific epithet was named after botanist George Vasey.- External links:***...
  
   Parish
• Salvia vasta
  Salvia vasta
  Salvia vasta is a perennial plant that is native to Hubei province in China, growing on the margins of fields and on hillsides. The plant grows on erect stems, typically tall, sometimes to . Inflorescences are terminal raceme-panicles that are long, with a yellow or purple corolla that is .There...
  
  
• Salvia veneris
  Salvia veneris
  Salvia veneris is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family that is endemic to Cyprus. It is found in a very small area just west of the village of Kythrea. A study in 2004 found only approximately 4,000 surviving plants....
  
  
• Salvia venulosa
  Salvia venulosa
  Salvia venulosa is a perennial plant that is native to a very small region of the Western Cordillera in Colombia. It grows at elevation in deeply shaded wooded gullies. S. venulosa grows less than tall, with narrow ovate leaves that are long and wide, and violet on the underside...
  
   Epling
• Salvia verbenaca
  Salvia verbenaca
  Salvia verbenaca, also known as Wild Clary or Wild Sage, is native to the British Isles, the Mediterranean region in Southern Europe, North Africa, and Near East, and in the Caucasus. It can be found as an introduced species that has naturalized in meadows in the Eastern United States.S...
  
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• Salvia verticillata
  Salvia verticillata
  Salvia verticillata is a herbaceous perennial native to a wide area ranging from central Europe to western Asia, and naturalized in northern Europe and North America. It was first described by Carolus Linnaeus in 1753....
  
  
• Salvia villosa
  Salvia villosa
  Salvia villosa is a herbaceous perennial that is native to the Mexican states of San Luis Potosi and Coahuila, growing at approximately elevation in dry areas that have little or no frost....
  
   Fernald
• Salvia vinacea Woot. & Standl.
• Salvia viridis
• Salvia viscosa
  Salvia viscosa
  Salvia viscosa is a herbaceous perennial native to a small area of mountains in Lebanon and Israel. It was first described in 1781 by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin but only began being sold in nurseries in the 1990s....
  
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• Salvia wagneriana
  Salvia wagneriana
  Salvia wagneriana is a perennial found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas, growing at elevation in warm, moist areas. It is very popular among gardeners near its native habitat, and one of the few native plants taken from the wild by local gardeners...
  
   Pol.
• Salvia wardii
  Salvia wardii
  Salvia wardii is a perennial plant that is native to Tibet, found growing in alpine grasslands and thickets at elevation. It grows high, on strong stems that are glandular and hairy, forming into a thick spreading plant. It has many basal leaves that are ovate to subhastate, long and wide...
  
   E. Peter
• Salvia weihaiensis
  Salvia weihaiensis
  Salvia weihaiensis is an herb that is native to Shandong province in China, growing along the seashore. S. weihaiensis grows on erect stems to a height of . Inflorescences are 2-8 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemess or panicles. It is related to Salvia japonica....
  
  
• Salvia whitehousei
  Salvia whitehousei
  Salvia whitehousei is a herbaceous perennial that is native to Texas.-Taxonomy:Salvia whitehousei was originally described as "Salviastrum dolichanthum Cory" in 1930 by Victor Louis Cory. When the genus Salviastrum was merged into Salvia in 1949 by Eula Whitehouse, it became "Salvia dolichantha ...
  
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