White sage
Salvia apiana Jeps.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.4 m
- wide
- 1.3 m
Lamiaceae
Also called Californian White Sage, Bee sage, Sacred sage, Dwarf White Sage
Formerly Audibertia polystachya, Audibertiella polystachya, Ramona polystachya
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- California, Mexico (Baja California)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia and Monrovia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 1.3 m to 1.5 mRead from Wikipedia and Monrovia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1.3–1.5 m; Monrovia 3–5 ft
- Spread
- 1.3 mRead from Wikipedia and Monrovia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1.3–1.3 m; Monrovia 3–8 ft
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia and Monrovia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia and Monrovia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia purple, white; Monrovia white
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Monrovia, one source
Not known yet: grows as, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- kasili
- Spanish
- salvia blanca
- Chinese
- 白鼠尾草
- Ojibwa
- Mashkodewashk, Bashkodejiibik, Wiingashk, Nookwezigan
- Russian
- Шалфей белый
- Turkish
- beyaz ada çayı
- Thai
- ซัลเวียขาว
- Afrikaans
- Kaliforniese wit salie
- Dutch
- Californische witte salie
- Finnish
- valkosalvia
- Slovak
- šalvia včelia
- Chinese (China)
- 白花鼠尾草
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Monrovia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Salvia apiana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.