Salvia rosmarinusSpenn.

Rosemary

WFO wfo-0000302167 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Salvia rosmarinus, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. a Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 199704583
Salvia rosmarinus, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. b Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199437726
Salvia rosmarinus, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. c Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199168329
Salvia rosmarinus, photographed by Katrin Simon
fig. d Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190117805
Salvia rosmarinus, photographed by Naturalista
fig. e Naturalista, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199783393
Salvia rosmarinus, photographed by Nico Hernandez
fig. f Nico Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189187155
Salvia rosmarinus, photographed by scolym
fig. g scolym, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189081983
Salvia rosmarinus, photographed by David Delon
fig. h David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189043235

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Flowering n = 3,768 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 3,768 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 39 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.

  • Rosmarinus angustifolius Mill.
  • Rosmarinus communis Noronha
  • Rosmarinus flexuosus Jord. & Fourr.
  • Rosmarinus latifolius Mill.
  • Rosmarinus lavandulaceus var. trogloditarum (Maire & Weiller) Rosua
  • Rosmarinus laxiflorus de Noé
  • Rosmarinus laxiflorus var. reptans Debeaux
  • Rosmarinus ligusticus Gand.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis L.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis f. laxiflorus (de Noé) Batt.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis prol. latifolius (Mill.) Rouy
  • Rosmarinus officinalis subsp. laxiflorus (de Noé) Nyman
  • Rosmarinus officinalis subsp. palaui (O.Bolòs & Molin.) Malag.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis subsp. valentinus P.P.Ferrer, A.Guillén & Gómez Nav.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis subvar. macrocalyx Font Quer ex O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Rosmarinus officinalis var. angustifolius (Mill.) DC.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis var. angustissimus Foucaud & E.Mandon
  • Rosmarinus officinalis var. argentatus Alef.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis var. auratus Alef.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis var. flexuosus (Jord. & Fourr.) St.-Lag.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis var. latifolius (Mill.) DC.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis var. latifolius (Mill.) P.Fourn.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis var. laxiflorus (de Noé) Murb.
  • Rosmarinus officinalis var. nutans Cout.

and 15 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.