Salvia can be annuals, biennials, herbaceous or evergreen perennials, or shrubs. They have paired, simple or pinnately lobed, often aromatic leaves and 2-lipped flowers in whorls, forming simple or branched spikes or racemes
'Lubecca' is a bushy, erect perennial with greyish-green, ovate leaves and dense racemes of small deep violet flowers, with persistent maroon bracts, in summer and autumn