Salvia liguliloba
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Salvia liguliloba is an annual herb that is native to Anhui
Anhui
Anhui is a province in the People's Republic of China. Located in eastern China across the basins of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, it borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, and Shandong for a tiny...

 and Zhejiang
Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...

 provinces in China. It grows on hillside forests at 800 m (2,624.7 ft) elevation. S. liguliloba grows on purple-green erect stems to a height of 30 to 40 cm (11.8 to 15.7 in), occasionally taller. Inflorescences are 2-12 flowered widely spaced verticillasters 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, with a 1.8 cm (0.708661417322835 in) reddish corolla.
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