Salvia africana-lutea leaves and flowers

The dune salvia is a hardy aromatic shrub with yellow spring flowers that mature into a rusty orange and later become brown. The saucer-like calyx persists when the petals drop off and is an attraction itself. The plant attracts many kinds of birds and insects. The salvias get their name from the Latin word salvere which means to salve or to heal (www.plantzafrica.com).

Note that the flower bracts to be seen among the leaves in this picture are green, hardly discernible from the leaves. In another photo in this Album the bracts are purplish brown.