Salvia plebeia

Erect perennial herb, 40–90 cm high; branches densely covered with simple, retrorse hairs, sessile glands present. Leaves narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic, 2–7 cm long, 0.8–2 cm wide, surfaces with dense short simple retrorse hairs and sessile glands, not or hardly rugose, apex subacute to obtuse, base usually cuneate, margin crenate; petiole 1–4 cm long, with c. retrorse hairs. Inflorescence thryse-like, with numerous spike-like branches, with 2–10 flowers per pseudowhorl; bracts small, c. elliptic. Calyx 2–3.5 mm long (5 mm long in fruit), c. 12-veined, with scattered short hairs and sessile glands, adaxial lip entire; corolla violet, purplish or blue, 3.5–5 mm long. Flowers most of year.