Salvia farinaceaBenth.

Mealy Blue Sage

WFO wfo-0000300986 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Salvia farinacea, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. a Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-07 / obs. 196071260
Salvia farinacea, photographed by mattmsa
fig. b mattmsa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187992373
Salvia farinacea, photographed by Chris Hughes
fig. c Chris Hughes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171004652
Salvia farinacea, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. d Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156464582
Salvia farinacea, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. e Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150590284
Salvia farinacea, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. f saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166036013
Salvia farinacea, photographed by ericaceous
fig. g ericaceous, CC0 1.0 / obs. 167649083
Salvia farinacea, photographed by GayleIsTired
fig. h GayleIsTired, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175442562

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Flowering n = 1,498 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,498 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 8 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 amabilis Kunth & C.D.Bouché
  • Salvia caesia Scheele
  • Salvia earlei Wooton & Standl.
  • Salvia farinacea var. heteranthera Brandegee
  • Salvia farinacea var. latifolia Shinners
  • Salvia linearis Sessé & Moc.
  • Salvia trichostyla Bisch.
  • Salvia virgata Ortega

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.