Salvia vaseyi
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Genus: | Salvia |
| Species: | S. vaseyi
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| Binomial name | |
| Salvia vaseyi (Porter) Parish
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Salvia vaseyi, the scallop-leaf sage,[1] bristle sage or wand sage, is a perennial native to the western Colorado Desert.
Description
[edit]Flowers grow in compact clusters on 1 to 2 ft (0.30 to 0.61 m) spikes. The .5 inches (1.3 cm) flowers are white, with whitish bracts, calyx, and leaves, blooming from April to June.
Taxonomy
[edit]Salvia vaseyi was first described as Audibertia vaseyi by the American botanist Thomas Conrad Porter in 1881.[2] The American botanist Samuel Bonsall Parish placed Audibertia vaseyi into genus Salvia in 1907.[3] As of January 2025[update], the name Salvia vaseyi (Porter) Parish is widely accepted.[4]
In his description, Porter describes the type specimen as follows:[5]
Mountain Springs, San Diego county, California, June 1880. This plant is No. 500 of a large and fine collection made last summer in lower California by Mr. G. R. Vasey, in whose honor it is named.
Later authors attributed the specific epithet vaseyi to the well-known botanist George Vasey,[6][7] when in fact the type specimen was collected by his son George Richard Vasey.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ NRCS. "Salvia vaseyi". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 28 October 2015.
- ^ "Audibertia vaseyi Porter". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Salvia vaseyi (Porter) Parish". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Salvia vaseyi (Porter) Parish". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ Porter, Thomas C. (1881). "Audibertia vaseyi". Botanical Gazette. 6 (5): 207. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ Jaeger, Edmund C. (1940). Desert Wild Flowers. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0365-9.
- ^ McMinn, Howard (1951). An illustrated manual of California shrubs. University of California Press. p. 475. ISBN 978-0-520-00847-2.
- ^ "Specimen US00121694: Audibertia vaseyi Porter". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 3 January 2025.