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§1 Plant

Salvia azurea Michx. ex Lam.

vernacular azure blue sage — species · Lamiaceae


USDA
SAAZ
GBIF
8283204
Rank
species
azure blue sage (Salvia azurea)
Platephotograph · Brian PetersonCC BY-NC-ND source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Lamiaceae Martinov
Genus
Salvia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 305 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 305 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 305 counties across 14 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 13 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 32 N
Florida view state ↗ 35 N
Georgia view state ↗ 31 N
Illinois view state ↗ 13 N
Kansas view state ↗ 86 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 11 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 31 N
Michigan view state ↗ 2 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 20 N
New York view state ↗ 2 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 20 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/SAAZ ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/8283204 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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