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Who can say what is normal for a plant if you don't know what it is?

Flowers would have very helpful in identifying it.

Here's a pic when it started flowering.

http://www.brandylion.com/images/sage-flower.jpg

Since then it grew three more flower stalks and has flowered for a month.
now the leaves are all yellowed and it doesn't look good. I bought these
seeds at the Chicago Botanical Gardens and the packet just said Sage.