Taxon: Salvia coccinea Buc’hoz ex Etl.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Salvia coccinea var. pseudococcinea (no accessions)

Common names:

• red salvia   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• scarlet sage   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Texas sage   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• tropical sage   (Source: F Tex ) – English
  
• wild salvia   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• zhu chun   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• sauge écarlate   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• beni-bana-sarubia   (Source: F Okin ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Mesoamerica: Belize; El Salvador; Guatemala
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Peru

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Yunnan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Lord Howe Island; Norfolk Island
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Niue; Tonga

• also cultivated

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource).
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. [lists as S. coccinea Murray].
• Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Australian plant census (APC) (on-line resource).
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Govaerts, R. World checklist of selected plant families (on-line resource).
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wood, J. R. I. & R. M. Harley. 1989. The genus Salvia (Labiatae) in Colombia. Kew Bull. 44:241.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Salvia coccinea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Salvia coccinea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Salvia coccinea.

Synonyms:

• Salvia pseudococcinea Jacq. [≡ Salvia coccinea var. pseudococcinea]
  

Check other web resources for Salvia coccinea Buc’hoz ex Etl.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Salvia coccinea cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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