Salvia FAQ Pages Index Sages that deserve collection:
Online Herbarium Resources Flora of China online (Salvias:) Confused by some of the terms in my posts or on these pages? Check this on-line reference. Dictionary of Botanical Words (Botany.com)
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| Salvia agnes Epling |
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| Salvia ancistrocarpha Fernald |
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| Salvia atropaenulata Epling |
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| Salvia betulaefolia Epling |
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| Salvia dichlamys Epling |
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| Salvia gravida Epling |
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| Salvia hintonii Epling |
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| Salvia macellaria Epling |
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| Salvia nigriflora Epling |
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| Salvia oresbia Fernald |
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| Salvia palealis Epling |
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| Salvia praestans Epling |
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| Salvia punicans Epling |
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| Salvia sessilifolia A. Gray ex S. Watson |
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| Salvia schaffneri Fernald |
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| Salvia tehuacana Fernald |
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| These images come from the New
York Botanical Garden Vascular Plant Type Catalog
and the Missouri
Botanical Garden W3 TROPICOS Image Index . This resource would
have tremendously facilitated my search for plants worthy of collecting
back in the mid 1970s. I made numerous trips on Friday afternoons
to the Gray Herbarium to investigate their Salvia holdings.
After making selections of herbarium sheets, xerographic copies were made,
and the sheets finally re-filed. The copies were in black and white and
barely useable to determine taxonomic features, but good enough to determine
the plant's worthiness as a garden subject.
Copies of these impressions were sent to nurserymen and botanic gardens in my quest for that fantastic new sage. It is through these images and discoveries that nurseries like Logee's Greenhouses, Companion Plants, Yucca-Do, Western Hills Rare Plant Nursery, and Sandy Mush Herb Farm were motivated to add new Salvias to their inventories. The images and data also were useful in identifying and locating botanic gardens, nurseries and collecting sites for these plants. The plants in real life often proved to be even better horticultural subjects than expected from their herbarium specimens. Translating the name also offers a clue. For example, the specific epithet `praestans' means excellent, distinguished, or superior. Hopefully, someone will discover some of the sages on the list above in a garden somewhere, or collect it in the wild before it becomes extinct. Another use of these sites for straightening out identities of unknown or misidentified plants. From the latest additions from the New York Botanic Garden, Salvia oresbia can be eliminated as identical with S. darcyi. The jury is still out as far as I am concerned about the identity of S. darcyi with S. schaffneri.
Sages unidentified or doubtfully identified: Click on the text
to go to a discussion;
These are sages whose species identities are doubtful or unknown. Some are of uncertain provenance, and others are recent collections that have not yet been conclusively identified. Listed below are the plants I believe are incorrect, unknown, or questionable: Salvia
darcyi - see Salvia schaffneri Salvia species from Nuevo Leon - Blue Chiquita Sage (Yucca-Do) Salvia
species from Nuevo Leon - Silver Leaf Sage (Yucca-Do) Salvia
caudata `El Cielo Blue' - (Yucca-Do) Salvia
species from Tamaulipas - Purple Stem Sage (Yucca-Do)
Sages with multiple or no varietal names: Click on the text
to go to a discussion;
The plants in this list are positively identified as species. Some have more than one name, and others are old selections with no specific varietal name to differentiate them from more recently introduced forms. Salvia
cardinalis
(a form of S. fulgens)
Sages commonly confused or often mislabeled: Click on the text
to go to a discussion;
Salvia
aethiopis vs. S. argentea
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