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Prostrate creeping herb, with slender often purplish stems 20–45 cm. long covered with fine medifixed hairs; rootstock woody.. Leaves often purplish, oblanceolate to obovate, 0.5–5 cm. long, 0.2–3 cm. wide, acute and sharply serrate at the apex, cuneate and entire at the base, glabrous or thinly pubescent with adpressed medifixed hairs.. Spikes purplish, cylindrical, 0.3–2.5 cm. long; bracts broadly obovate to oblate-cuspidate, 2–3 × 3–5 mm.; peduncles 1.3–8 cm. long.. Calyx dorsiventrally flattened, 1.4 mm. long, split almost to base abaxially and to about the middle adaxially.. Corolla mauve, pink or white with yellow centre, often white and purple in one inflorescence, and sometimes purple in bud, white when open; tube ± 1.5 mm. long; lobes unequal, 0.6–0.8 mm. in diameter.. Stamens 4, didynamous.. Stigma obliquely capitate.. Fruit rounded obovoid, 1.2 × 1–1.2 mm., divided into 2 pyrenes.. Fig. 4.
Perennial herb; stems angled, forming large dense mats to several m diam., rooting at nodes. Lvs shortly petiolate. Lamina 1-2-(c. 3) × 0.3-0.5-(1.5) cm, oblong or spathulate, dentate in upper 1/2, occasionally lobed, with appressed hairs on both surfaces; base attenuate; apex obtuse or subacute. Peduncles 2-6 cm long. Heads subglobose or ovoid, 8-12 mm diam. Bracts broad-ovate, acuminate, densely hairy outside; margins ciliate, purplish. Calyx c. 1.5 mm long; obtuse; margins ciliate, purplish. Corolla tube > calyx; limb 3-4 mm diam., mauve with orange throat, becoming pale with age; lobes subequal, rounded or sinuate. Nutlets 1-2 mm long.
A plant which forms a tight mat. It spreads by runners or stolons. It grows 3-15 cm high. These can be woody near the base. They produce many roots. It can spread 2-5 m wide. The leaves are small and opposite. The are oblong or sword shaped and narrow to a leaf stalk at the base. There can be some teeth near the end of the blade. The leaves can be smooth or covered with hairs. The flowers heads are round or oval and 1.25 cm across. They are on long flowering stalks. The flowers are pink and like clover flowers.
Perennial herb. Stems decumbent, rooting at nodes. Leaves shortly petiolate or subsessile; blade spathulate, obovate to narrowly obovate, 8-72 x 4-25 mm, base cuneate, margins entire in basal half, sharply and coarsely dentate towards apex; petioles up to 8 mm long. Flowers: in short, dense spikes; peduncles much longer than subtending leaves; calyx deeply 2-lobed; corolla with tube 1.5-2.0 mm long, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, lower one 3-lobed, white with a yellow throat or mauve-pink; Jul.-Feb.
Much like no. 1 [Phyla lanceolata (Michx.) Greene], but the lvs spatulate to obovate or elliptic-obovate, generally broadest a little above the middle, mostly rounded or obtuse at the tip and narrowed to a cuneiform, petiolar or subpetiolar base, often toothed only above the middle; 2n=36. Moist soil in many habitats, especially in disturbed sites; pantropical, n. in Amer. to Va. and Calif., rarely further. May–Oct. (Lippia n.)
Herbs, perennial. Branches many, creeping, rooting at distal nodes,minutely strigose. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade spatulate, 1-3 X 0.5-1.5 cm, papery, pubescent, base cuneate, margin distally sharplyserrate, veins inconspicuously 4-paired. Inflorescences cylindricto ovate capitula, 1-2.5 cm; peduncle 1-7 cm. Corolla pinkishpurple or white, glabrous. Capsules ca. 1.5 mm in diam. 2n= 36.
Corolla mauve-pink or white with a yellow throat, often white and purple in the same inflorescence, sometimes purple in bud, white when open, c. 2.5 mm long; tube 1.5–2 mm long and 1–1.5 mm broad at the mouth; limb 2–2.5 mm in diameter with the upper lip 2-lobed and erect, the lower lip larger, 3-lobed with the median lobe oblong.
Stems up to 2(3) m long, decumbent, terete and somewhat fleshy, drying ± angular and sulcate, rooting at the nodes; internodes 0.7–9 cm long; nodes somewhat thickened; branches 1–2 at each node, from leaf axils, up to 30 cm long, erect or the longer branches ± decumbent and sometimes rooting at the nodes.
Leaves somewhat fleshy, opposite, sessile or shortly petiolate, 0.8–7.2 × 0.4–2.5 cm, spathulate, oblanceolate or obovate, obtuse to rounded or subacute at the apex and sharply coarsely serrate at the upper part, cuneate and entire at the lower part; petiole up to 8 mm long.
Spikes short, dense, subglobose or shortly-ovoid at flowering time, and up to 1–2.5(3) cm × 5–9 mm at maturity, cylindric; peduncles (0.5)1–11.5 cm long; bracts closely imbricate, up to c. 2.5 × 2 mm, broadly obovate to oblate-cuspidate, persistent and ± accrescent.
Calyx compressed, membranous, deeply split almost to the base abaxially and to about the middle adaxially, persistent but hardly accrescent; lobes 1.5–2 mm long, hyaline or dark purple, shortly toothed on the keels.
Mericarps 1.5–2 mm long, sub-hemispherical, flattened at the commissural face, obtuse or rounded at the apex, glabrous, enclosed within the persistent calyx.
Indumentum of short appressed medifixed sharply pointed white hairs, sparse on old parts, ± dense on younger parts, mainly on leaves and floral bracts.
For description of variety occurring in Australia, following Munir (1993), see Phyla nodiflora var. nodiflora.
Prostrate perennial herb with long trailing stems radiating from a woody taproot.
Bracts often tinged purple
Leaves often tinged purple
A prostrate creeping herb
Flowers mauve or pink.
