Salvia dentata leaf surfaces

The leaf surfaces of Salvia dentata may display fluffy to velvety grey patches of minute hairs, elegantly reticulated like town planning designs with crescent avenues for upmarket suburbs.

Some of the variably pronounced channels on top of the curving petioles continue their wall-like, marginal ridges into the leaf margins, complicating the answer to the question as to whether they are toothed or not.

The leaf-shape is ovate with tapering base and rounded, pointed or flatly squared tips. The grey-green surfaces are pale or dull green in parts. The leaves are aromatic. They become about 2 cm long and 1 cm wide (Manning, 2009; Le Roux, et al, 2005; iNaturalist).