| 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 (grown as), Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (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-Oct-Nov |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems 4-sided; leaves opposite, ovate, most blades 5-8cm long x 3-5cm wide, pineapple odour when crushed; spike-like verticillasters up to 20cm long, flowers two-lipped, tubular, 2-3cm long, bright scarlet, Aug to hard frost. | |