Calflora: Salvia columbariae

Salvia columbariae Benth.

chia, chia sage

Salvia columbariae, a dicot, is an annual herb that is native to California and is also found outside of California, but is confined to western North America.

Communities:	Coastal Sage Scrub, Chaparral, Foothill Woodland, Creosote Bush Scrub
Habitat:	disturbed [Walker]
Elevation:	between 0 and 7000 feet
Family:	LAMIACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Salvia found in California.
	This is a parent record; distribution data is an aggregate of data for subspecies and varieties: Salvia columbariae var. columbariae

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:

TJM2:

Salvia columbariae var. ziegleri

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 42 / 10 CCH Butte: 3 / 2 CCH Contra Costa: 50 / 14 CCH Colusa: 21 / 21 CCH El Dorado: 1 / 1 CCH Fresno: 27 / 22 CCH Glenn: 7 / 7 CCH Imperial: 13 / 13 CCH Inyo: 80 / 72 CCH Kings: 5 / 5 CCH Kern: 122 / 96 CCH Lake: 23 / 22 CCH Los Angeles: 253 / 204 CCH Madera: 1 / 0 CCH Mendocino: 5 / 1 CCH Merced: 6 / 6 CCH Mono: 3 / 1 CCH Monterey: 62 / 31 CCH Mariposa: 2 / 1 CCH Marin: 5 / 2 CCH Napa: 14 / 7 CCH Orange: 24 / 19 CCH Riverside: 264 / 246 CCH Santa Barbara: 87 / 64 CCH San Bernardino: 340 / 330 CCH San Benito: 18 / 9 CCH Santa Clara: 22 / 16 CCH Santa Cruz: 3 / 3 CCH San Diego: 352 / 325 CCH Shasta: 4 / 4 CCH San Joaquin: 3 / 3 CCH San Luis Obispo: 50 / 36 CCH San Mateo: 7 / 3 CCH Solano: 4 / 2 CCH Sonoma: 14 / 3 CCH Stanislaus: 10 / 9 CCH Sutter: 4 / 3 CCH Tehama: 16 / 15 CCH Trinity: 1 / 1 CCH Tulare: 14 / 8 CCH Tuolumne: 1 / 1 CCH Ventura: 54 / 29 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Salvia columbariae from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (SACO6)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database