Salvia brevilabra is a perennial plant

Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...

 that is native to Sichuan

Sichuan

' , known formerly in the West by its postal map spellings of Szechwan or Szechuan is a province in Southwest China with its capital in Chengdu...

 province in China, growing on hillsides, grasslands, and in forests at 3200 to 3800 m (10,498.7 to 12,467.2 ft) elevation. It grows up to 60 cm (23.6 in) tall, with basal leaves that are ovate

Leaf shape

In botany, leaf shape is characterised with the following terms :* Acicular : Slender and pointed, needle-like* Acuminate : Tapering to a long point...

 to triangular-ovate, 9 to 11 cm (3.5 to 4.3 in) long and 5 to 7 cm (2 to 2.8 in) wide. The stem leaves are somewhat smaller, and more triangular in shape.

Inflorescences are raceme

Raceme

A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels — along the axis. In botany, axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In a raceme, the oldest flowers are borne...

s or panicle

Panicle

A panicle is a compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers attached along the secondary branches; in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes....

s, approximately 13 cm (5.1 in), with a blue-purple corolla about 2.5 cm (0.984251968503937 in) long.