Salvia iodantha

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salvia iodantha, photographed by Norma Piedra — fig. b Norma Piedra, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19606534

Salvia iodantha, photographed by aiwendil — fig. c aiwendil, CC0 1.0 / obs. 29708157

Salvia iodantha, photographed by Ana Nuño — fig. d Ana Nuño, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185354335

Salvia iodantha, photographed by Guillermo Huerta Ramos — fig. f Guillermo Huerta Ramos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169285007

Salvia iodantha, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña — fig. g Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 108410143

Salvia iodantha, photographed by Dayan Romero — fig. h Dayan Romero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30782189

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Native distribution of Salvia iodantha, 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 Northeast	MXE
Mexico Northwest	MXN
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 336 in flower of 344 examined

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Proportion of examined Salvia iodantha in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	81	82	99%	93% to 100%
Feb	66	66	100%	95% to 100%
Mar	44	46	96%	85% to 99%
Apr	19	19	100%	83% to 100%
May	7	7	100%	65% to 100%
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	1	too few examined
Aug	1	1	too few examined
Sep	10	10	100%	72% to 100%
Oct	12	13	92%	67% to 99%
Nov	47	49	96%	86% to 99%
Dec	49	50	98%	90% to 100%

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Salvia iodantha 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. 336 of 344 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 2 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 arbuscula Fernald
Salvia michoacana Fernald

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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