Salvia vaseyi

Flowers grow in compact clusters on {{convert|1|to|2|ft|m|abbr=on}} spikes. The {{convert|.5|in|cm}} flowers are white, with whitish bracts, calyx, and leaves, blooming from April to June.

Salvia vaseyi was first described as Audibertia vaseyi by the American botanist Thomas Conrad Porter in 1881.{{r|IPNI:444904-1}} The American botanist Samuel Bonsall Parish placed Audibertia vaseyi into genus Salvia in 1907.{{r|IPNI:227054-2}} {{As of|2025|01}}, the name Salvia vaseyi {{small|(Porter) Parish}} is widely accepted.{{r|POWO:227054-2}}

In his description, Porter describes the type specimen as follows:{{r|Porter 1881}}

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|text=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.

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Later authors attributed the specific epithet vaseyi to the well-known botanist George Vasey,{{r|Jaeger 1940|McMinn 1951}} when in fact the type specimen was collected by his son George Richard Vasey.{{r|US00121694}}

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{{IPNI |id=444904-1 |taxon=Audibertia vaseyi |authority={{small|Porter}} |access-date=3 January 2025}}

{{IPNI |id=227054-2 |taxon=Salvia vaseyi |authority={{small|(Porter) Parish}} |access-date=3 January 2025}}

{{cite book |last=Jaeger |first=Edmund C. |authorlink= Edmund Jaeger |title=Desert Wild Flowers |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=1940 |isbn=978-0-8047-0365-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5xxCG3OfLO8C&pg=PA222}}

{{cite book |last=McMinn |first=Howard |title=An illustrated manual of California shrubs |publisher=University of California Press |year=1951 |page=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedmanua00howa/page/475 475] |isbn=978-0-520-00847-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedmanua00howa |url-access=registration}}

{{cite journal |last1=Porter |first1=Thomas C. |title=Audibertia vaseyi |journal=Botanical Gazette |date=1881 |volume=6 |issue=5 |page=207 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5173768#page/210/mode/1up |access-date=3 January 2025}}

{{cite POWO |id=227054-2 |title=Salvia vaseyi {{small|(Porter) Parish}} |access-date=3 January 2025}}

{{cite web |title=Specimen US00121694: Audibertia vaseyi {{small|Porter}} |url=http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/36004d61c-971d-4a01-9040-aeb69c19299b |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=3 January 2025}}

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• [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SAVA USDA Plants Profile]
• [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_cpn.pl?43108 Jepson manual]
• [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?stat=BROWSE&query_src=photos_flora_sci&where-genre=Plant&where-taxon=Salvia+vaseyi&title_tag=Salvia+vaseyi Photo gallery]

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vaseyi

Category:Flora of California

Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status

Category:Plants described in 1881

Category:Taxa named by Samuel Bonsall Parish

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