| Taxon | Salvia apiana |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Lamiaceae |
| Family common name(s) | mint; mints; peppermint; dead-nettle; dead nettle; deadnettle; lavender; labiatae |
| Genus common name(s) | salvia |
| Species common name(s) | California white sage; Californian white sage; California white bee sage; white bee sage; California bee sage; grandfather sage; smudge sage |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | compact white sage [var. compacta] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | white-leaf sage, white leaf sage, whiteleaf sage, perennial sage are applied to multiple Salvia taxa; bee sage is applied to multiple Lamiaceae taxa; white sage, white-sage, whitesage, sage are applied to taxa in multiple families |
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| Notes | California, Californian are proper names, so upper case preferable |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | var. apiana; var. compacta Munz |
