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Diviner's Sage

Salvia divinorum

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 0, June 1, July 0, August 2, September 1, October 2, November 5, December 3.
Mexico14
Oaxaca7
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave7
United States4
Missouri2
Illinois2
Colombia1
Antioquia1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Cultural useListed as having cultural uses such as ritual, religious, psychoactive, contraceptive, abortifacient, smoking, or masticatory uses.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderMints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies · Lamiales
FamilyMint Family · Lamiaceae
GenusSages · Salvia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Diviner's Sage with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.