Salvia campanulata - Bellflower Sage

Bellflower Sage is a perennial herb with stems erect, 43-80 cm, finely bristly or hairy. Flowers are borne in densely hairy, glandular hairy 2-6-flowered whorls which are widely spaced, in branch-end raceme-panicles; bracts ovate, 4-9 mm. Flowers are yellow, about 2.7 cm, nearly hairless except upper lip hairy; tube hairy annulate inside, gradually curved, dilated beyond hairy annulus, to 8 mm at throat; upper lip ovate, about 7 x 5 mm, slightly arcuate; lower lip 1-1.2 × 1.2 cm, obliquely spreading; middle lobe inverted-heart-shaped, about 4 x 8 mm, slightly constricted at base; lateral lobes triangular-ovate, about 3 mm wide. Stamens are slightly protruding or almost inside, filaments about 6.5 mm, style slightly protruding. Flower-stalks are 2-5 mm. Sepal-cup is bell-shaped, about 1.3 cm, shallowly 2-cleft to strongly 2-lipped, hairy, glandular hairy, sparsely black-brown glandular, margin ciliolate; upper lip broadly ovate, about 3 × 10 mm, tip pointed; lower lip as long as upper, about 9 mm wide, tip with 2 triangular pointed teeth. Leaf-stalks are 3-25 cm; leaf blade heart-shaped to ovate-flat, 4-18 x 3.5-13.5 cm, below hairy to velvet-hairy or densely hairy along veins, base heart-shaped to flat, margin incised-rounded toothed, tip tapering. Bellflower Sage is found in forest margins, forests, hillsides, valleys, at altitudes of 800-3800 m, from the Himalayas to S. Central China. Flowering: July-September.