Data sources

Each value Trefle shows for Salvia mellifera, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced4 Differs from sources1 Source not recorded9 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, Earlier Trefle data

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	Greene	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Pittonia 2: 236 (1892)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1892	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Black sage	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	W. California to Mexico (N. Baja California)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	130 cm	129.5 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 6 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 241, 251, 708, 818	Differs from sources
Growth habit	Shrub, Subshrub	Shrub, Subshrub · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 28, 759, 818	Sourced
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation	None	None · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 822	Sourced
Cultivation
Minimum root depth	61 cm	61 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 339, 818	Sourced

Salvia mellifera Greene, 1892 18% complete

Black sage

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