Stachys hyssopoides Burch. ex Benth.

Perennial herb with a creeping rhizomatous rootstock; stems erect to decumbent, 0.2-0.6 m tall, simple or sparingly branched, glabrous or with scattered stellate hairs or sometimes stellate-tomentose. Leaves scarcely petiolate, sometimes fascicled, the base of the leaf somewhat clasping the stem and forming an interpetiolar ridge; blade somewhat coriaceous, linear to oblanceolate or linear-oblanceolate, 20-55 x 2-8(-10) mm, glabrous to thinly stellate-pubescent, rarely stellate-tomentose, apex usually obtuse, often apiculate, base attenuate, margin entire or sparingly toothed towards the apex. Inflorescence of few to several spaced verticils; verticils usually 2-flowered, occasionally 4-or 6-flowered; bracts lanceolate, shorter or as long as the calyx. Calyx thinly to fairly densely grey stellate-tomentulose, usually with a fringe of white hairs along the margins of the teeth, 6-7 mm long. Corolla pink or mauve, often with darker flecks, to purple; tube 6-7 mm long; upper lip spreading to erect, 5 mm long; lower lip somewhat deflexed, 7 mm long.