The plant was named by botanist John Donnell Smith in 1893 for William Cummings Shannon, who collected it in the wild.
Salvia | Salvia pratensis | Salvia officinalis | Salvia divinorum | Salvia radula | Salvia mellifera | Salvia Divinorum | salvia | Salvia uliginosa | Salvia pachyphylla | Salvia mexicana | Salvia leucantha | Salvia glutinosa | Salvia apiana | Salvia aegyptiaca | Mined mined leaf of ''Salvia pratensis | "Horminum tingitanum" (''Salvia tingitana |