Herbs annual, odoriferous. Stems erect or ascending, 50-90 cm tall, much branched, densely hirsute and glandular hairy. Petiole short or nearly absent; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate or elliptical-lanceolate, 5-15 × 2-4 cm, both surfaces hispid, densely so along veins, margin entire, densely shortly ciliate; ocrea tubular, 1-1.2 cm, membranous, densely glandular hairy and hirsute, apex truncate, long ciliate. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, spicate, 2-4 cm, usually several spikes aggregated and panicle-like; peduncles densely hirsute and glandular hairy; bracts funnel-shaped, hirsute and glandular hairy, margin sparsely long ciliate, each 3-5-flowered. Pedicels longer than bracts. Perianth pinkish, 5-parted; tepals elliptic, ca. 3 mm. Stamens 8, included. Styles 3, connate to below middle. Achenes included in persistent perianth, black-brown, shiny, broadly ovoid, trigonous, ca. 2.5 mm. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Aug-Oct.
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An annual herb. It grows 50-100 cm high. The branches have glandular hairs. The leaves are sword shaped and 5-13 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. They are wedge shaped at the base. There are short stiff hairs on both surfaces. The flowers are pink. They are in cylinder shaped clusters at the ends of branches. The fruit is dry and 3 sided and 3 mm long. It is black and shiny.
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