Salvia circinnata

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salvia circinnata, photographed by Elliott Gordon — fig. b Elliott Gordon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159251804

Salvia circinnata, photographed by Santiago Soto Maurer — fig. c Santiago Soto Maurer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 94409339

Salvia circinnata, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz — fig. d José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44679455

Salvia circinnata, photographed by Carlos Martorell — fig. e Carlos Martorell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28833541

Salvia circinnata, photographed by Adrianh M. Orozco — fig. g Adrianh M. Orozco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 11585729

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Native distribution of Salvia circinnata, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
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 509 in flower of 541 examined

80%

33%

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72%

89%

93%

98%

99%

97%

96%

88%

Proportion of examined Salvia circinnata in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	4	5	80%	38% to 96%
Feb	2	6	33%	10% to 70%
Mar	2	2	too few examined
Apr	8	10	80%	49% to 94%
May	13	18	72%	49% to 88%
Jun	42	47	89%	77% to 95%
Jul	93	100	93%	86% to 97%
Aug	130	133	98%	94% to 99%
Sep	121	122	99%	96% to 100%
Oct	60	62	97%	89% to 99%
Nov	27	28	96%	82% to 99%
Dec	7	8	88%	53% to 98%

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Salvia circinnata 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. 509 of 541 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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 5 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 amara Jacq.
Salvia amarissima Ortega
Salvia capillosa Epling
Salvia hirsuta Sessé & Moc.
Salvia nepetoides Kunth

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.

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