Strobilanthes reptans - Creeping Coneflower

Creeping Coneflower is a herb up to 50 cm tall, isophyllous. Flowers are borne in branch-end spikes, elongating to 6-8 cm at maturity. Flowers are white or pale violet with darker veins, 1.3-1.5 cm, hairless; tube basally cylindric for 4-6 mm; petals round, 2-5 mm, hairless. Stamens are 4, not protruding. Sepal-cup is 6.5-10 mm, 5-lobed to base; sepals linear-lanceshaped, fringed with hairs, tip finely narrowed. Bracts inverted-lanceshaped to elliptic, 8-12 x 2-5 mm, bracteoles absent. Stems are sometimes rosette-forming but usually prostrate and rooting at nodes. Leaf-stalk is 0.5-8 cm, velvet-hairy, becoming hairless; leaf blade oblong, elliptic, oblong-ovate, or nearly round, 1.5-8 x 1-4 cm, both surfaces velvet-hairy, secondary veins 4 or 5 on each side of midvein, base abruptly flat to slightly heart-shaped, margin rounded toothed to almost entire, tip pointed to blunt. Capsules are 7-9 mm, at tip velvet-hairy, 8-16-seeded. Creeping Coneflower is native to Malesia and W. Pacific, naturalized in SE Asia, NE and South India. Flowering: April-September.