Plant Description
Slender-stemmed aromatic shrub distinguished by its grayish-green and opposite leaves with round-toothed margins, white tangled hairs on the lower leaf surface, and strong veins above, as well as by the terminal, densely-hairy spikes of flowers.
Aromatic shrub diffusely branched; small grayish-green opposite and round toothed leaves; small flowers in slender, elongated spikes in axillary spikes.
Habitat
Found on rocky slopes and in ravines, often on limestone.
Leaves
Leaves are often crowded, rounded to oval, 1/10 to 6/10 inch long, lower surface of leaf is densely hairy.
Flowers
Tiny flowers less than 1/10 inch long, covered with downy hairs. 4 to 5 lobes per flower, rounded, upper 2 lobes are larger. Flowers are borne on branched elongated clusters that are 1 to 2 inches long.
Fruit
2 nutlets per flower, tiny, much less than 1/16 inch in size.