Variable woody-based perennial herb to about 30 cm tall. Leaves linear to obovate, with pointed tips, hardly stalked. Flowers to 14 together, white to lilac; summer to autumn.
S Europe
As a condiment like S. hortensis but with less flavour.
White-flowered prostrate variants are occasionally available.
The name S. repens has no botanical standing and plants given this name are probably a prostrate variant or possibly S. reptans of gardens, which is S. spicigera (K. Koch) Boiss.
Source: (2002). Salvia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.