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Perennial, straggling herb, 0.2-2.0 m high, erect; stems solitary or few from base, sparingly branched. Leaves sessile or subsessile, linear-lanceolate to linear-elliptic, 40-110 x 8-25 mm, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margins regularly toothed; subglabrous to puberulous. Inflorescence solitary or borne on branches produced on upper part of stem; bracts linear, ciliate. Flowers pale blue, sky-blue, pale mauve or pinkish to almost white. Calyx puberulous, purple; teeth 4-6 mm long. Corolla 8-18 mm long, bilabiate; tube cylindric below, enlarging near throat, deflexed; upper lip 4-lobed; lower lip boat-shaped. Flowering time Nov.-June.
Perennial herb, 0.2-2.0 m high. Stems erect, solitary or a few from base. Leaves sessile or subsessile; blade linear to narrowly ovate or elliptic, 40-110 x 8-25 mm, apex acute to acuminate, base cuneate, margins obscurely to sharply and regularly toothed; petioles up to 5 mm long. Flowers: inflorescence solitary or several borne on branches produced on upper part of stem, central one largest; bracts linear, ciliate, 4 mm long; calyx teeth 4-6 mm long, puberulous, purple; corolla 8-18 mm long, pale blue or sky blue to pale mauve or pinkish or almost white; Nov.-Jun.
An erect half-woody, perennial herb
Short spikes of blue flowers
