Looks very much like one we got years ago from the Berkeley Botanic Gardens, No scientist has ventured to name it - the Chinese herbaceous perennial sages are a naming nightmare. We call it what they do in Berkeley: Salvia species from Szechuan. In probably five years now we have had one - yes, one - viable seed. It is growing now but will not bloom this season. Because we grow so many of the Chinese species, which are so precocious about hybridizing, our lone new seedling could very well be a hybrid. The original plant may be a hybrid, as it never (almost, see above) even sets seed, and is much visited by a range of pollinators.
