Salvia
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Description
Herbs, undershrubs, or shrubs.
Leaves opposite, cauline or almost all radical, simple, 3-foliolate, pinnate or 1-2-pinnatifid.
Flowers small to large and showy;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical
About 500 spp., widely distributed in temperate and subtropical regions in the world, rather few in the tropics. Probably only one species is native to Malesia; several other species are more or less naturalized; still others are cultivated in the gardens as ornamental. Only the native and truly naturalized species are included in the following key. The key in covers also many cultivated species enumerated here at the end.