Salvia lyrataL.

lyreleaf sage

WFO wfo-0000301499 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Salvia lyrata, photographed by Clay Gibbons
fig. a Clay Gibbons, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203317499
Salvia lyrata, photographed by Tom Field
fig. b Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201530847
Salvia lyrata, photographed by Kathy Richardson
fig. c Kathy Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198333615
Salvia lyrata, photographed by stephen
fig. d stephen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199749579
Salvia lyrata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. e Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196196117
Salvia lyrata, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. f Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198009330
Salvia lyrata, photographed by Steve Young
fig. g Steve Young, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195730411
Salvia lyrata, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. h Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196374957

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 4,596 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 4,596 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 12 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.

  • Cunila lyrata (L.) Schrank
  • Horminum lyratum (L.) Mill.
  • Horminum virginicum L.
  • Larnastyra lyrata (L.) Raf.
  • Salvia acaulis Vahl
  • Salvia lyraefolia Salisb.
  • Salvia lyrata f. purpureorubra Moldenke
  • Salvia lyrata var. obovata Pursh
  • Salvia obovata (Pursh) Raf. ex Perkins
  • Salvia obovata Elliott
  • Salvia ocimoides Roxb.
  • Salvia virginica (L.) L. ex B.D.Jacks.

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.