Salvia namaensis, the klipsalie (stone salvia) in Afrikaans, is an herbaceous shrub that grows many square woody branches and may exceed 1 m in height.
It has intricately lobed sticky and aromatic leaves, the smallest lobes at the base. The wrinkly upper leaf surface is rough from its net-veining. There are hairs and oil globules on the leaf surfaces, especially hairy below.
The corollas of the flowers are two-lipped and white, blue or pink in colour. The plant is a commonly seen in gardens and fast growing.
The species distribution is in much of the Western Cape and Northern Cape Karoo, parts of the Little Karoo, North West, the Free State, Namibia and Botswana.
The habitat is sandy and stony, semi-arid scrub veld. The species is not considered threatened in habitat early in the twenty first century (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010; www.plantzafrica.com).