page_title: List of Salvia species
section_title: O
hierarchical_section_title: List of Salvia species / O
caption_attribution_description: English: Salvia officinalis, Lamiaceae, Garden Sage, Common Sage, habitus. Botanical Garden KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany. Deutsch: Salvia officinalis, Lamiaceae, Echter Salbei, Garten-Salbei, Küchensalbei, Heilsalbei, Habitus. Botanischer Garten KIT, Karlsruhe, Deutschland.
context_page_description: Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, with the number of species estimated to range from 700 to nearly 1,000. Members include shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals. There are three main regions of radiation of Salvia: Central and South America, with approximately 500 species; central Asia and the Mediterranean with approx. 250 species; eastern Asia with approximately 90 species.
  The naming of distinct Salvia species has undergone regular revision, with many species being renamed, merged, and reclassified over the years. Salvia officinalis, for example, has been cultivated for thousands of years, yet has been named and described under six different scientific names since 1940 alone. At one time there were over 2,000 named species and subspecies. The most recent revision was done in 1988 by Gabriel Alziar of the Jardin botanique de la Ville de Nice—it consolidated the number of different species to approximately 700. As new discoveries are made, the taxonomic list of Salvia species will continue to change.
context_section_description: Salvia oaxacana Fernald
  Salvia oblongifolia M.Martens & Galeotti
  Salvia obtorta Epling
  Salvia obtusata Thunb.
  Salvia obumbrata Epling
  Salvia occidentalis Sw.
  Salvia occidua Epling
  Salvia occultiflora Epling
  Salvia ochrantha Epling
  Salvia ocimifolia Epling
  Salvia odontochlamys Hedge
  Salvia officinalis L.
  Salvia oligantha Dusén
  Salvia oligophylla Aucher ex Benth.
  Salvia ombrophila Dusén
  Salvia omeiana E.Peter
  Salvia omerocalyx Hayata
  Salvia opertiflora Epling
  Salvia ophiocephala J.R.I.Wood
  Salvia oppositiflora Ruiz & Pav.
  Salvia orbignaei Benth.
  Salvia oreopola Fernald
  Salvia oresbia Fernald
  Salvia orthostachys Epling
  Salvia ovalifolia A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.
  Salvia oxyphora Briq.
caption: Salvia officinalis
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