Salvia melliferaGreene

black sage

WFO wfo-0000301567 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Salvia mellifera, photographed by Henrik Kibak
fig. a Henrik Kibak, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-23 / obs. 200638868
Salvia mellifera, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. b Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192673835
Salvia mellifera, photographed by Jess Mullins
fig. c Jess Mullins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196665919
Salvia mellifera, photographed by Henrik Kibak
fig. d Henrik Kibak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195230168
Salvia mellifera, photographed by Jess Mullins
fig. e Jess Mullins, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196410525
Salvia mellifera, photographed by George Williams
fig. f George Williams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189041038
Salvia mellifera, photographed by Chuck Wilson
fig. g Chuck Wilson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196663560
Salvia mellifera, photographed by lejones417
fig. h lejones417, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188857350

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Flowering n = 1,869 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,869 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 9 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.

  • Audibertia spinulosa Nutt. ex Benth.
  • Audibertia stachyoides Benth.
  • Audibertiella stachyoides (Benth.) Briq.
  • Ramona stachyoides (Benth.) Briq.
  • Salvia mellifera subsp. jonesii (Munz) Abrams
  • Salvia mellifera subsp. revoluta (Munz) Abrams
  • Salvia mellifera var. jonesii Munz
  • Salvia mellifera var. revoluta Munz
  • Salvia mellifera var. typica Munz

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.