Salvia cynica 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 in forests and streamsides at 1500 to 3200 m (4,921.3 to 10,498.7 ft) elevation. The leaves are broadly 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 broadly hastate-ovate or subcircular, ranging in size from 5 to 20 cm (2 to 7.9 in) long and 3 to 18 cm (1.2 to 7.1 in) wide.

Inflorescences are 2-6 flowered widely spaced 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...

-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 up to 20 cm (7.9 in) long. The yellow corolla is 4 cm (1.6 in), blooming July-August.