Salvia pogonochila 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 the 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 alpine meadows at 3800 m (12,467.2 ft) elevation. S. pogonochila grows on ascending stems to 30 to 50 cm (11.8 to 19.7 in) tall. 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 triangular-hastate, ranging in size from 2.5 to 8 cm (0.984251968503937 to 3.1 in) long and 1.5 to 7 cm (0.590551181102362 to 2.8 in) wide. Inflorescences are 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 25 cm (9.8 in), with a blue-purple corolla that is 1.4 to 1.8 cm (0.551181102362205 to 0.708661417322835 in).