Perennial herb, 0.15-0.50 m high; stems 1-several from taproot, occasionally from creeping rootstock; hispid or crisped pilose, gland-dotted. Leaves shortly petiolate; upper ones sessile, runcinate-pinnatipartite to lyrate, rarely almost entire, oblong-lanceolate to obovate, 30-90 x 15-30 mm; lobes rounded, triangular or oblong and pinnatifid; hispid-scabrid, gland-dotted. Inflorescence simple; verticillasters several to many, widely spaced below, denser above, each 4-8-flowered. Flowers white or pale blue to mauve or purplish. Calyx hispid-scabrid, gland-dotted. Corolla: tube 4.5-9.0 mm long; upper lip 3-4 mm long; lower lip slightly longer. Flowering time Nov.-May.
Perennial herb, 0.15-0.50 m high. Stems 1-several stems from a taproot, occasionally from a creeping rootstock; indumentum of short to long eglandular hairs. Leaves narrowly oblong-ovate to obovate, 30-90 x 15-30 mm, margins runcinate-pinnatipartite to lyrate. Flowers: in verticils, upper lip of calyx 2-or 3-toothed, spreading; fruiting calyces 4-7 mm long; calyx gland dotted, 5-8 mm long, hispid-scabrid; corolla 7-14 mm long, upper lip of corolla straight; corolla white or pale blue to mauve or purplish; Aug.-Apr.
Shortly hairy perennial to 70 cm from a woody rootstock. Leaves usually lyrate. Flowers in verticils, calyx roughly hairy and gland-dotted, corolla white or mauve to purplish, 7-14 mm long.