Salvia carneaKunth

WFO wfo-0000300599 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salvia carnea, photographed by harrier
fig. a harrier, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-23 / obs. 201694633
Salvia carnea, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. b Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3726875
Salvia carnea, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. c Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108345227
Salvia carnea, photographed by Will Cornwell
fig. d Will Cornwell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59254878
Salvia carnea, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. e Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3836051
Salvia carnea, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. f Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 3821080
Salvia carnea, photographed by Eugenio Padilla
fig. g Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 26408283
Salvia carnea, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. h Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46953689

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Salvia carnea is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panamá, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaPanamáVenezuela
Native distribution of Salvia carnea, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Panamá PAN
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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.

Flowering 270 in flower of 274 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Salvia carnea 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. 270 of 274 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 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.cgje2x.

Also published as 15 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 debilis Epling
  • Salvia gracilis Benth.
  • Salvia iodochroa Briq.
  • Salvia irazuensis Fernald
  • Salvia killipiana Epling
  • Salvia martensii Galeotti
  • Salvia membranacea Benth.
  • Salvia membranacea var. villosula Benth.
  • Salvia myriantha Epling
  • Salvia natalis Epling
  • Salvia pseudogracilis Epling
  • Salvia purpurascens M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Salvia sapinea Epling
  • Salvia sidifolia M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Salvia simulans Fernald

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.