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Salvia
akiensis, a relatively newly discovered perennial
species, occurs in Shimane and Hiroshima Prefectures, with the
former inhabiting a shady countryside forest edge. The latter
reportedly occurs along a mountain stream. The 30- 50 cm tall,
square-in-section stem organizes a rosette-like mass of leaves
with ternate and pentatrinate-leaves at the base. With prominent
hairs on the corolla, the light bluish-purple flowers appear in
May in the prefecture.
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