Salvia granitica is a
stoloniferous perennial with a woody rootstock. Stems are erect to ascending, up to tall, little branched, and four-angled; they are nearly hairless below, with a few spreading white hairs, and more finely hairy above with occasional glandular hairs. Leaves are simple, linear to linear-oblanceolate, long, usually
entire and mostly
glabrous above, with long white non-glandular hairs and oil glands beneath; they are
sessile or taper into a short
petiole. The
inflorescence is usually unbranched, bearing 5–9 two-flowered verticils, spaced below and more closely set above. Floral leaves are small and ovate-acuminate, with minute bracts. Flowers are borne on erect to spreading
pedicels up to long. The
calyx is narrow and tubular to campanulate, long, nine-veined and hairy, with a truncate upper lip and two long teeth on the lower lip. The
corolla is a light mauve-pink, about long, with a falcate hood and a slightly exserted tube. Staminal connectives are elongate, with fertile lower anthers.
Salvia granitica flowers in November and December. ==References==