When does tropical sage bloom in Florida?

Most often in May. Across 198 dated, research-grade observations of Salvia misella in Florida, the flowering season runs roughly January to December.

Peak May In flower 198 Examined 206 State Florida

Flowering 198 in flower of 206 examined

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Proportion of examined Salvia misella in Florida in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	23	25	92%	75% to 98%
Feb	36	37	97%	86% to 100%
Mar	34	35	97%	85% to 99%
Apr	22	23	96%	79% to 99%
May	8	8	100%	68% to 100%
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	1	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	18	18	100%	82% to 100%
Nov	23	24	96%	80% to 99%
Dec	34	35	97%	85% to 99%

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Salvia misella 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. 198 of 206 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 misella 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 misella

tropical 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.