Salvia reptans (slenderleaf sage)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Salvia reptans, photographed by Erick Vélez Sánchez — fig. a Erick Vélez Sánchez, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-13 / obs. 143878324

Salvia reptans, photographed by IA braham — fig. b IA braham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93819591

Salvia reptans, photographed by Alexis López Hernández — fig. c Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 93087836

Salvia reptans, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez — fig. f Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 21504802

Salvia reptans, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés — fig. h Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 2182883

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Native distribution of Salvia reptans, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Mexico Central	MXC	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast	MXE
Mexico Southeast	MXT
Mexico Southwest	MXS
Texas	TEX
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 336 in flower of 338 examined

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97%

92%

Proportion of examined Salvia reptans in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	2	2	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	2	2	too few examined
Apr	20	20	100%	84% to 100%
May	22	22	100%	85% to 100%
Jun	49	49	100%	93% to 100%
Jul	69	69	100%	95% to 100%
Aug	76	76	100%	95% to 100%
Sep	51	51	100%	93% to 100%
Oct	33	34	97%	85% to 99%
Nov	11	12	92%	65% to 99%
Dec	1	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Salvia reptans 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. 336 of 338 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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 4 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 angustifolia Cav.
Salvia angustifolia var. glabra Briq.
Salvia leptophylla Benth.
Salvia linifolia M.Martens & Galeotti

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol SARE5. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.

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