| Taxon | Salvia columbariae |
| 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 chia; California chia sage; California chia salvia; western chia; golden chia |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | Ziegler's sage [var. ziegleri] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | chia sage, chia salvia are applied to multiple Salvia taxa; chia is applied to multiple Lamiaceae taxa; sage, California sage are applied to taxa in multiple families |
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| Notes | California, Ziegler are proper names, so upper case preferable; Zieglers is an error |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | var. columbariae; var. ziegleri Munz |
