Salvia microphyllaKunth

baby sage

WFO wfo-0000301600 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salvia microphylla, photographed by Forest Botial-Jarvis
fig. a Forest Botial-Jarvis, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-23 / obs. 153314457
Salvia microphylla, photographed by Jeremiah Degenhardt
fig. b Jeremiah Degenhardt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150276955
Salvia microphylla, photographed by Sam Kieschnick
fig. c Sam Kieschnick, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10677058
Salvia microphylla, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. d Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89944737
Salvia microphylla, photographed by Don Loarie
fig. e Don Loarie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10051956
Salvia microphylla, photographed by Rosario Douglas
fig. f Rosario Douglas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156309806
Salvia microphylla, photographed by Mark Pollock
fig. g Mark Pollock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168831255
Salvia microphylla, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. h Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152546325

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Salvia microphylla is native: Arizona, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Guatemala ArizonaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestGuatemala
Native distribution of Salvia microphylla, 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
Arizona ARI NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Guatemala GUA SOUTHERN AMERICA

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 1,042 in flower of 1,054 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Salvia microphylla 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. 1,042 of 1,054 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 11 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.

  • Lasemia coccinea Raf.
  • Lesemia coccinea Raf.
  • Salvia gasterantha Briq.
  • Salvia grahamii Benth.
  • Salvia lemmonii A.Gray
  • Salvia microphylla var. canescens A.Gray
  • Salvia microphylla var. neurepia (Fernald) Epling
  • Salvia microphylla var. wislizeni A.Gray
  • Salvia neurepia Fernald
  • Salvia obtusa M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Salvia odoratissima Sessé & Moc.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.