As the customs may bar a live plant from entering the country, I

would need to find it within. First, what’s the Chinese name for the

common sage?

Google translated sage as 鼠尾草. Baidu added 可做调料.  So far, so good.

Then Wikipedia showed the herb’s scientific name as Salvia officinalis.

Baidu 百科, however, said 鼠尾草’s latin name was Salvia japonica, which

from the web looks quite different from the common sage which came from

the Mediterranean. Wikipedia says S. japonica is native to East and South Asia.

基维百科 gave the correct latin name for 鼠尾草，but that seemed it.

Not a single line was written in Chinese about the herb and not a

single link was provided there. So besides its name and maybe Scarborough

Fair, the Chinese knew nothing about the plant?