Salvia hayatae is an annual herb that is native to the foothils of Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

. The stems of S. hayatae reach 20 to 45 cm (7.9 to 17.7 in) tall, with mostly basal leaves. Inflorescences are 2-5 flowered verticillasters, widely spaced at the bottom and crowded at the top, in terminal 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.

There are two named varieties: S. hayatae var. hayatae has leaves that are 2-pinnately compound, while S.  hayatae var. pinnata has leaves that are 1-pinnately compound.