Salvia wardii (Tibetan sage) is a perennial plant that is native to Tibet, found growing in alpine grasslands and thickets at elevation. It grows 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, long and wide. The upper leaf is slightly ridged with short hairs, the underside has red glandular hairs, especially dense on the veins.
The corolla is blue with white on the lower lip, held in a purple tinged calyx, growing on terminal panicles or racemes.