Stachys sessilis Gürke

Perennial, erect, single-to few-stemmed herb, 0.15-1 m tall; stems arising annually at the end of a short horizontal rhizome bearing clusters of fusiform roots, usually simple, hispid-villous with longish spreading hairs and with an interpetiolar ridge at the nodes. Leaves sessile or the lower leaves shortly petiolate; blade drying greenish to brown, deltoid-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate to oblong, or ovate-deltoid, broadest at the base to near the middle, 20-50 x 6-18 mm, strigose with the appressed hairs on the upper surface usually bulbous-based, apex rounded to obtuse, base truncate to rounded, margin crenate, slightly thickened or inrolled. Inflorescence simple, lax below, denser above; verticils 4-8-flowered; lower bracts leaf-like, becoming smaller, lanceolate and equal to or shorter than the calyx above. Calyx fairly densely appressed-hispid, 5-6 mm long. Corolla white, usually with purplish spots on the lower lip; tube 5-6 mm long; upper lip ascending, 2.5-3 mm long; lower lip deflexed, 7-8 mm long.