Salvia aegyptiacaL.

WFO wfo-0000300188 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Salvia aegyptiaca, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. a Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-04-01 / obs. 63693448
Salvia aegyptiaca, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. b Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2047682
Salvia aegyptiaca, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. c Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2383182
Salvia aegyptiaca, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. d Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63693459
Salvia aegyptiaca, photographed by Jacek Pietruszewski
fig. e Jacek Pietruszewski, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179002243
Salvia aegyptiaca, photographed by Peter Gabler
fig. f Peter Gabler, CC0 1.0 / obs. 61783539
Salvia aegyptiaca, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. g Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 57037918
Salvia aegyptiaca, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. h Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184892815

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Salvia aegyptiaca is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Afghanistan, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Yemen, India, Pakistan, West Himalaya AlgeriaChadEgyptEritreaLibyaMaliMauritaniaMoroccoNigerSomaliaSudan-South SudanTunisiaWestern SaharaAfghanistanGulf StatesIranIraqOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiYemenIndiaPakistanWest Himalaya Canary Is.Cape Verde
Native distribution of Salvia aegyptiaca, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Cape Verde CVI
Chad CHA
Egypt EGY
Eritrea ERI
Libya LBY
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Niger NGR
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Yemen YEM
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Melissa perennis Forssk.
  • Pleudia aegyptiaca (L.) M.Will, N.Schmalz & Class.-Bockh.
  • Salvia aegyptiaca f. albiflora Sauvage
  • Salvia aegyptiaca f. colorata Maire
  • Salvia aegyptiaca var. glandulosissima Bornm. & Kneuck.
  • Salvia aegyptiaca var. intermedia E.Peter
  • Salvia aegyptiaca var. pumila (Benth.) Asch. & Schweinf. ex I.Löw
  • Salvia arida Salisb.
  • Salvia gabrieli Rech.f.
  • Salvia pumila Benth.
  • Thymus hirtus Viv.
  • Thymus syrticus Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.