Salvia macrophylla is a perennial undershrub native to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. In Colombia it is a rare plant, found growing on roadside banks in the south, at elevations from 1400to.
The plant has many decumbent and upright stems reaching 1m (03feet) high and spreading into a large bush. The triangular-hastate leaves are 10to long and 8to wide, and violet on the underside. The leaves have many glands, and are sticky and aromatic. The corolla is blue, 2.5cm (01inches) long, with the upper lip smaller than the lower, growing on 15to branches.[1]