Salvia chunganensis
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Salvia chunganensis is an annual herb that is native to Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

 province in China, typically growing in tufts of grass. S. chunganensis grows on erect stems to a height of 32 to 44 cm (12.6 to 17.3 in). Inflorescences are 2-6 flowered verticillasters in 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, with a 9 to 10 mm (0.354330708661417 to 0.393700787401575 in) purplish blue or reddish white corolla.
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