| Scientific Name: | Salvia elegans |
| Common Name: | pineapple sage |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Central America, Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Fragrance, Herb, Medicinal plant, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Distinctive smell, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, Red, Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite on square stems, ovate, up to 8cm long, and smell like pineapple when crushed; florets bright scarlet, two-lipped, in a spike-like verticillaster up to 20cm long. | |