When does lyreleaf sage bloom in Florida?

Most often in March. Across 880 dated, research-grade observations of Salvia lyrata in Florida, the flowering season runs roughly February to March.

Peak March In flower 880 Examined 1,110 State Florida

Flowering 880 in flower of 1,110 examined

62%

85%

94%

75%

46%

38%

25%

15%

33%

21%

73%

50%

Proportion of examined Salvia lyrata in Florida in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	51	82	62%	51% to 72%
Feb	165	195	85%	79% to 89%
Mar	437	466	94%	91% to 96%
Apr	158	211	75%	69% to 80%
May	18	39	46%	32% to 61%
Jun	3	8	38%	14% to 69%
Jul	2	8	25%	7% to 59%
Aug	2	13	15%	4% to 42%
Sep	2	6	33%	10% to 70%
Oct	3	14	21%	8% to 48%
Nov	16	22	73%	52% to 87%
Dec	23	46	50%	36% to 64%

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Salvia lyrata in Florida observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 880 of 1,110 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.wt38fd.

What this is, and what it is not

This is a record of when people in Florida found Salvia lyrata in flower, not a forecast. It is computed only from observations made in Florida, so it is not the species’ global average dragged onto a map: the same plant flowers on different dates in different places, and that is the entire point of the page.

It will not tell you what your particular plant will do this year. Bloom time moves with the season, with altitude, and with the weather, and a warm February pulls everything forward. We publish the distribution and the sample size, and we refuse to draw a month that too few people examined.

The plant

Salvia lyrata

lyreleaf sage

Sourcesevery claim on this page

GBIF (iNaturalist Research-grade Observations). Dated flowering annotations in Florida. Every record achieved iNaturalist quality grade Research, which is applied upstream at export. 10.15468/dl.wt38fd. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
World Flora Online Plant List. The accepted name. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.