Salvia azureaLam. ex Vahl

giant blue sage

WFO wfo-0000300369 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Salvia azurea, photographed by Rich Sommer
fig. a Rich Sommer, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-06 / obs. 167628839
Salvia azurea, photographed by mark-groeneveld
fig. b mark-groeneveld, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169860540
Salvia azurea, photographed by john_hall
fig. c john_hall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162887657
Salvia azurea, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. d saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166570185
Salvia azurea, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. e saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161910629
Salvia azurea, photographed by Rich Sommer
fig. f Rich Sommer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161300444
Salvia azurea, photographed by Dwight Kingsbury
fig. g Dwight Kingsbury, CC0 1.0 / obs. 168468193

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Flowering n = 676 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 676 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 17 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.

  • Salvia acuminata Vent.
  • Salvia acuminatissima Steud.
  • Salvia angustifolia Michx.
  • Salvia azurea f. albiflora McGregor
  • Salvia azurea subsp. media Epling
  • Salvia azurea subsp. pitcheri (Torr. ex Benth.) Epling
  • Salvia azurea subsp. typica Epling
  • Salvia azurea unranked devilleana Jacob-Makoy
  • Salvia azurea var. elata (Poir.) Pursh
  • Salvia azurea var. grandiflora Benth.
  • Salvia azurea var. longifolia Trel.
  • Salvia azurea var. pitcheri (Torr. ex Benth.) E.Sheld.
  • Salvia coriifolia Scheele
  • Salvia elata Poir.
  • Salvia elongata Torr.
  • Salvia mexicana Walter
  • Salvia pitcheri Torr. ex Benth.

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.

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