Salvia coccineaBuc'hoz ex Etl.

Tropical sage

WFO wfo-0000300715 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Salvia coccinea, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. a Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-11 / obs. 197061675
Salvia coccinea, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. b Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198695285
Salvia coccinea, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. c Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195393299
Salvia coccinea, photographed by Vicki Miller
fig. d Vicki Miller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193862298
Salvia coccinea, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198591946
Salvia coccinea, photographed by Center for Urban Ecology
fig. f Center for Urban Ecology, CC0 1.0 / obs. 194433520
Salvia coccinea, photographed by Rich Sommer
fig. g Rich Sommer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195732072
Salvia coccinea, photographed by Rich Sommer
fig. h Rich Sommer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194116045

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Flowering n = 4,065 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 4,065 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 14 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.

  • Horminum coccineum (Buc'hoz ex Etl.) Moench
  • Salvia ciliata Benth.
  • Salvia coccinea L.f.
  • Salvia coccinea f. pseudococcinea (Jacq.) Voss
  • Salvia coccinea unranked pumila Barr & Sugden
  • Salvia coccinea var. minima Fernald
  • Salvia coccinea var. pseudococcinea (Jacq.) A.Gray
  • Salvia filamentosa Tausch
  • Salvia galeottii M.Martens
  • Salvia glaucescens Pohl
  • Salvia mollissima M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Salvia pseudococcinea Jacq.
  • Salvia rosea Vahl
  • Salvia superba E.Vilm.

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.