Soup Mint

Description

Decumbent, many-stemmed, aromatic, perennial herb. Stems to 1.5m with ascending inflorescence. Leaves 4.5x4cm, petiolate, ovate to ovate deltoid, densely pubescent on both surfaces and gland-dotted, apex obtuse or rounded, margin crenulate, margins white; petiole 4-11mm. Inflorescence spicate, flowers in dense glomerate verticils, bracts persistent; calyx 4-6mm, glandular-villous, uppermost tooth longest, apiculate; corolla 7-9mm, lilac, mauve or white tube slightly bent at middle expanding to throat, upper lip 1.5-2mm, lower lip 4mm; stamens united at base.