Salvia pratensisL.

Meadow Sage

WFO wfo-0000301989 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Salvia pratensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203324751
Salvia pratensis, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. b Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203599472
Salvia pratensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. c Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203308464
Salvia pratensis, photographed by Tobias Schönberg
fig. d Tobias Schönberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203016901
Salvia pratensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201618837
Salvia pratensis, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. f Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203936290
Salvia pratensis, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. g Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201831193
Salvia pratensis, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. h Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202525980

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Flowering n = 2,902 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 2,902 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 48 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.

  • Gallitrichum clusii Timb.-Lagr.
  • Gallitrichum pratense (L.) Fourr.
  • Plethiosphace leistneriana Opiz
  • Plethiosphace pratensis (L.) Opiz
  • Plethiosphace stenantha Opiz
  • Salvia agrestis L.
  • Salvia arnassensis Gand.
  • Salvia barrelieri Ten.
  • Salvia bertolonii Vis.
  • Salvia ceratophylla Ten.
  • Salvia ceratophylloides Ard.
  • Salvia clusii Timb.-Lagr.
  • Salvia dubia K.Koch
  • Salvia exasperata Cav.
  • Salvia haematodes L.
  • Salvia haematodes subsp. tiberina (Mauri) Nyman
  • Salvia laciniosa Jord.
  • Salvia lupinoides E.Vilm.
  • Salvia macrantha Schur
  • Salvia oblongata Schur
  • Salvia pratensis f. verticillata Bolzon
  • Salvia pratensis subsp. bertolonii (Vis.) Soó
  • Salvia pratensis var. agrestis (L.) Gaudin
  • Salvia pratensis var. alba Schrad.

and 24 more.

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.