Salvia pauciflora 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 Yunnan

Yunnan

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...

 province in China, growing in and around forests at 2800 to 3400 m (9,186.4 to 11,154.9 ft) elevation. It grows on 2-4 slender unbranched stems with widely spaced leaves. 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 ovate-triangular, typically ranging in size from 2.5 to 6 cm (0.984251968503937 to 2.4 in) long and 1.2 to 5 cm (0.47244094488189 to 2 in) wide.

Inflorescences are of 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 that are 2 to 8 cm (0.78740157480315 to 3.1 in), with a corolla that is purplish red or purple-white (rarely purplish), with white spotting on the lower lip. The corolla is 1.3 to 2 cm (0.511811023622047 to 0.78740157480315 in), rarely a bit longer.