Arecaceae
Cabbage palmetto
Sabal palmetto
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Genus
- Sabal
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Common names
By language (15)
- Arabic
- سبال نخيلي, سابال بالمتو, نخيل بالميتو, نخيل سابال
- arz
- سبال نخيلى
- Chinese
- 菜棕, 巴尔麦棕榈
- Czech
- Palma sabalová
- English
- Cabbage palmetto, Blue palmetto, Palmetto, Cabbage palm, Cabbage-palm, Carolina palmetto, Common palmetto, Palmetto palm
- French
- Palmier des sables
- German
- Palmettopalme
- Hebrew
- סבל פלמטו
- Hungarian
- Közönséges szabalpálma
- Japanese
- キューバサバル, パルメットヤシ
- Persian
- نخل کلمی
- Russian
- Сабаль пальметто
- Spanish
- Cabbage Palmetto, Palma cana
- Turkish
- Lahana palmiyesi
- Vietnamese
- Cọ bắp cải
Synonyms
- Chamaerops palmetto (Walter) Michx.
- Corypha palmetto Walter
- Corypha umbraculifera Jacq.
- Inodes blackburniana (Schult. & Schult.f.) O.F.Cook
- Inodes palmetto (Walter) O.F.Cook
- Inodes schwarzii O.F.Cook
- Sabal bahamensis (Becc.) L.H.Bailey
- Sabal blackburniana Schult. & Schult.f.
- Sabal blackburniana Glazebr.
- Sabal jamesiana Small
- Sabal palmetto var. bahamensis Becc.
- Sabal parviflora Becc.
- Sabal schwarzii (O.F.Cook) Becc.
- Sabal viatoris L.H.Bailey
Flowers
- In flower
- April to August (from 96 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
- Flower colour
- white (USDA PLANTS Database)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
FlowerPhoto: elik03, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Ben Machado, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Seig, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Sterling Herron, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: annelindgren1955, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: William J. Deml, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: Sim Byrne, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF 
Photo: Stuart Cable, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons Photo: heather patti, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Pl@ntNet via GBIF
More in Sabal
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- Bermuda palmSabal bermudanaArecaceae
- Puerto Rico palmettoSabal causiarumArecaceae
- Bull thatch palmSabal maritimaArecaceae
- Sabal pumosArecaceae
- Sabal yapaArecaceae
- Sabal domingensisArecaceae
- Sabal gretheraeArecaceae
- Rio Grande palmettoSabal mexicanaArecaceae
- Bull thatch palmSabal uresanaArecaceae
- Scrub palmettoSabal etoniaArecaceae
- Bay palmettoSabal mauritiiformisArecaceae
Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.