Salvia lasiocephalaHook. & Arn.

WFO wfo-0000301376 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salvia lasiocephala, photographed by Saban-Sequén, E.A.
fig. a Saban-Sequén, E.A., CC BY 4.0 / 2020-12-20 / obs. 108112802
Salvia lasiocephala, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. b Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 59751293
Salvia lasiocephala, photographed by Dayan Romero
fig. c Dayan Romero, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28122468
Salvia lasiocephala, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. d Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67265499
Salvia lasiocephala, photographed by adel-fridus
fig. e adel-fridus, CC0 1.0 / obs. 29464277
Salvia lasiocephala, photographed by Grete Pasch
fig. f Grete Pasch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107622652
Salvia lasiocephala, photographed by Juan J. Morales-Trejo
fig. g Juan J. Morales-Trejo, CC0 1.0 / obs. 57236071
Salvia lasiocephala, photographed by Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña
fig. h Juan Carlos Pérez Magaña, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31677961

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Salvia lasiocephala is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáVenezuela
Native distribution of Salvia lasiocephala, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
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 117 in flower of 118 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Salvia lasiocephala 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. 117 of 118 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 6 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 elsholtzioides Benth.
  • Salvia fracta L.O.Williams
  • Salvia galinsogifolia Fernald
  • Salvia hyptoides M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Salvia hyptoides var. subspicata Fernald
  • Salvia multispicata Rusby

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.