What is "salvia lyrata"

cancerweed \cancerweed\ n. a sage of eastern U. S. ( Salvia lyrata).

Syn: cancer weed.

Salvia lyrata (lyre-leaf sage, lyreleaf sage, wild sage, cancerweed), is a herbaceous perennial in the family Lamiaceae that is native to the United States, from Connecticut west to Missouri, and in the south from Florida east to Texas. It was described and named by Carolus Linnaeus in 1753.