''Salvia cynica'' is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing in forests and streamsides at elevation. The leaves are broadly ovate to broadly hastate-ovate or subcircular, ranging in size from long and wide. Inflorescences are 2–6-flowered widely spaced verticillasters in

raceme A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

s up to long. The yellow corolla is , blooming July–August.

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cynica Flora of China {{Salvia-stub