Salvia wardii (Tibetan sage) is a perennial plant that is native to Tibet, found growing in alpine grasslands and thickets at 3600to elevation. It grows 50to high, on strong stems that are glandular and hairy, forming into a thick spreading plant. It has many basal leaves that are ovate to subhastate, 7to long and 3.5to wide. The upper leaf is slightly ridged with short hairs, the underside has red glandular hairs, especially dense on the veins.
The 3.5to corolla is blue with white on the lower lip, held in a purple tinged calyx, growing on terminal panicles or racemes.[1]