Salvia sinica is a perennial plant that is native to the hills of Anhui and Zhejiang provinces in China. S. sinica grows on one to a few erect stems to tall, with stem leaves that are narrowly ovate and smaller terminal leaflets that are ovate to oblong-lanceolate. Inflorescences are 5âÂÂ12 flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes, with a corolla that is tawny, purplish or purple on the upper lip, .