Salvia uribei is a herbaceous perennial that is endemic to a single small valley between Tunja

Tunja

Tunja is a city and municipality located in the central part of Colombia, in the region of "Alto Chicomocha". As of the 2005 Census it had 152,419 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Department of Boyacá and part of the subregion of the Central Boyacá Province. It is approximately 145 km...

 and Cucaita

Cucaita

Cucaita is a municipality in Boyacá Department, Colombia, part of the subregion of the Central Boyacá Province. It is located approximately 315km away from the capital of Bogota. Most inhabitants are farmers in Cucaita.-External links:...

 in Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

. It grows in dry scrub, along with Salvia palifolia

Salvia palifolia

Salvia palifolia is a decumbent perennial herb native to Colombia and western Venezuela, growing in grassland, cloud forest clearings, streamsides, and rocky outcrops from elevation. The long green leaves are hastate or cordate; the blue flowers are long....

and Peperomia

Peperomia

Peperomia is one of the 2 large genera of the Piperaceae family, with more than 1000 recorded species. Most of them are compact, small perennial epiphytes growing on rotten wood. More than 1500 species have been recorded, occurring in all tropical and subtropical regions of the world, though...

species, between 2900 to 2950 m (9,514.4 to 9,678.5 ft) elevation. It was named after Lorenzo Uribe Uribe, who discovered the plant, and has made significant contributions to Colombian botany.

S. uribei is decumbent, rooting near the base, and growing to 30 cm (11.8 in) tall, with 4-angled stems with white hairs. The broad ovate leaves are 3 to 5 cm (1.2 to 2 in) long and 2.5 to 4.5 cm (0.984251968503937 to 1.8 in) wide, with the upper side dark green and pilose, and the underside grey tomentose. The inflorescence has 2 to 12 cm (0.78740157480315 to 4.7 in) terminal racemes, with a 15 to 16 mm (0.590551181102362 to 0.62992125984252 in) long corolla that has a blue upper lip and a dark violet lower lip with a white throat.