Salvia

Salvia L.

flowering Salvia officinalis

Order	Lamiales
Family	Lamiaceae
Distribution	temperate and tropical areas

800-900 species

Most of the plants named sage are members of genus Salvia.

Some exceptions are species of Lamiaceae with pubescent leaves:

• Phlomis fruticosa, sauge de Jerusalem sage
• Plectranthus amboinicus, Spanish sage
• Teucrium scorodonia, wood sage

Classification

It appears that genus Salvia is not monophyletic. It could consist in 2-3 clades, and genera Rosmarinus, Thymus and Mentha could be imbedded.

Species

There are about 800-900 Salvia species, distributed both in temperate and tropical areas.

A great many sages are used localy as medicinals. Most of them also have an ornamental interest, and are grown by many plant lovers and collectionists. So it is practically impossible to be exhaustive.

Ornamentals

• Salvia coccinea
• Salvia elegans
• Salvia farinacea
• Salvia greggii
• Salvia lavandulifolia
• Salvia lyrata
• Salvia microphylla
• Salvia sclarea
• Salvia splendens

Food and condiments

• Salvia carduacea
• Salvia columbariae
• Salvia elegans
• Salvia hispanica
• Salvia lavandulifolia
• Salvia mellifera
• Salvia merjamie
• Salvia moorcroftiana
• Salvia officinalis
• Salvia potus
• Salvia sclarea
• Salvia verbenaca
• Salvia viridis

Medicinals

• Salvia aegyptiaca
• Salvia columbariae
• Salvia divinorum
• Salvia dorrii
• Salvia lavandulifolia
• Salvia leucodermis
• Salvia longispicata
• Salvia lyrata
• Salvia mellifera
• Salvia microphylla
• Salvia moorcroftiana
• Salvia nilotica
• Salvia occidentalis
• Salvia officinalis
• Salvia plebeia
• Salvia pratensis
• Salvia sclarea
• Salvia serotina
• Salvia shannonii
• Salvia stenophylla
• Salvia verbenaca

Fibre plants

• Salvia columbariae

References

• Alziar G. (1988–1993). Catalogue synonymique des Salvia L. du monde (Lamiaceae). I.–VI. Biocosme Mesogéen, 5(3–4): 87–136; 6(1–2, 4): 79–115, 163–204; 7(1–2): 59–109; 9(2–3), 413–497; 10(3–4): 33– 117.
• Barner, Carol D., 2003. The new book of salvias: sages for every garden. Timber Press, 344 p.
• Walker, J. B.; Sytsma, K. J.; Treutlein, J. & Wink, M., 2004. Salvia (Lamiaceae) is not monophyletic: implications for the systematics, radiation, and ecological specializations of Salvia and tribe Mentheae. American Journal of Botany 91(7): 1115–25. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.7.1115.

Links

• BHL
• GRIN
• IPNI
• Mansfeld
• Multilingual Plant Name Database
• Plant List
• Sauges du jardin botanique de Nice (collection agréée CCVS)
• Tela Botanica
• Wikipédia