Plant
- Annual bedding flower or herbaceous perennial
- Numerous species and cultivars
- 2-3' tall
Stem
- Opposite or whorled leaf arrangement
- Square stems
Leaf
- Ovate to lance-shaped
- Opposite, simple, finely toothed
Flower
- Two species
- Annual S. splendens
- 1½" wide, in dense, upright, terminal clusters
- Annual red salvia is also called scarlet sage
- Also available: orange, purple, white
- S. farinacea
- ½" wide, in dense, upright, terminal spikes
- Perennial or grown as annual
- Also called mealycup sage
- Blue, purple, or, less commonly, white
