Chia
ಚೀಯಾचियाസാൽവിയ ഹിസ്പാനിക്ക
Salvia hispanica L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.8 m
- wide
- —
Lamiaceae
Also called Chia sage, Spanish sage
Formerly Kiosmina hispanica, Salvia chia, Salvia prysmatica, Salvia schiedeana
When it flowers
Flowers September to January in the tropics.
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
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to GuatemalaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 1.8 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Cape leadwortFlowers February to August, when this does not
Cotton RosemallowFlowers February to August, when this does not
Crimson bottlebrushFlowers February to August, when this does not
LantanaFlowers February to August, when this does not
LemonFlowers February to August, when this does not
Mexican petuniaFlowers February to August, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- root
- chaa, chiyan
- Spanish
- Chía
- French
- Chia, Sauge d'Espagne
- Chinese
- 芡歐鼠尾草
- Dutch
- Chia
- Chinese (China)
- 芡欧鼠尾草
- Japanese
- チア
- Czech
- šalvěj hispánská
- Russian
- Шалфей испанский, Чиа белая, Чиа
- Italian
- Chia
- Turkish
- kiya
- Swedish
- mexikansk chiasalvia
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Salvia hispanica (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.