Herbs annual. Stems 15-37 cm tall, purple-red, puber-ulent, unbranched or branched from base. Petiole 1.5-9 cm, densely fine villous; leaf blade oblong to ovate-oblong, 0.8-4 × 0.4-1.5 cm, herbaceous, apex subobtuse, finely villous, yellowish green, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin serrulate to serrate-crenate. Spikes cylindric, (1-)1.5-5 × to 1 cm, terminal; verticillasters many flowered, basal 1-3 widely spaced; rachis densely pubescent; bracts broadly ovate, 1.5 mm, pilose abaxially, margin ciliate, apex mucronate. Pedicel to 1.5 mm, densely pubescent. Calyx campanulate, ca. 1.2 mm, densely yellowish moniliform villous; teeth triangular, subequal, ciliate; fruiting calyx tubular, ca. 4 × 1.5 mm. Corolla yellow, ca. 2 mm, puberulent outside, margin ciliate, tube funnelform, upper lip emarginate; lower lip ± patent, middle lobe larger. Nutlets brown, ellipsoid, ca. 1.4 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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A herb. It grows each year from seed. It grows 15-37 cm tall. The stems are red to purple and hairy. The leaves are oval and 1-4 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. There are rounded teeth along the edge. The flower spike is cylinder shaped.
It is a temperate plant. It grows in cold deserts in north India. In China it grows in hilly grasslands between 3,500-4,100 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Moist, open places; at elevations from 3,000-4,800 metres.
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