Hummingbird Sage
Salvia spathacea Greene
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 90 cm
- wide
- 1.3 m
Lamiaceae
Also called California hummingbird sage, Californian Hummingbird Sage, Crimson Pitcher Sage, Hummingbird sage
Formerly Audibertia grandiflora, Audibertiella grandiflora, Ramona grandiflora
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
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. & SW. CaliforniaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 1.5 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 1.3 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, magenta, purple, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Russian
- Шалфей покрывальцевый
- Chinese
- 加州蜂鳥鼠尾草, 大苞鼠尾草
- Chinese (China)
- 加州蜂鸟鼠尾草
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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Salvia spathacea (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.