Perennial herb, 0.15-0.30 m high; few-to several-stemmed, erect often from decumbent base, sparingly branched, glandular-pilose with long slender hairs and short gland-tipped hairs. Leaves petiolate, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, 15-35 x 8-20 mm, base usually deeply cordate, apex rounded, margins regularly crenate-serrate; upper surface softly to stiffly appressed-pubescent, undersurface usually with copious gland dots. Inflorescence lax below, fairly dense above; verticillasters 4-6-flowered. Flowers whitish to mauve. Calyx shortly glandular-pubescent to glandular-pilose. Corolla: upper lip ascending; lower lip with darker flecks, deflexed. Flowering time Jan.-Apr.
Perennial herb, up to 0.3 m high. Stems erect, stout, often from a decumbent base, glandular-pilose with long, slender hairs and short gland-tipped hairs. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate to narrowly ovate or ovate-oblong, 15-35 x 8-20 mm, apex rounded, base deeply cordate, margins regularly crenate-serrate, thick-textured, lower surface glandular-pubescent; petioles 4-12 mm long. Flowers: verticils 4-6-flowered; calyx 6-7 mm long, shortly glandular-pubescent to glandular-pilose; corolla whitish to mauve with darker flecks on lower lip, upper lip ascending, lower lip deflexed, 5-7 mm long; Nov.-Mar.