Botanical name:Leucas marrubioidesFamily:Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Horehound Leucas is an erect herb, simple or branched, growing to only 20
cm tall. The species name marrubioides means resembling Horehound
(Marrubium). Indeed the the plant has the same form of opposite leaves
with widely spaced dense whorls of tiny white, 2-lipped flowers. Stem is
quadrangular, white velvety. Leaves are ovate, toothed, tip acute or
blunt, base rounded. Leaves are silvery velvety beneath. Flowers are
white, in axillary densely flowered whorls. Bracts are about 8 mm long,
linear, hairy. Sepal tube is narrow, 6 mm long, 10 ribbed, hairy outside,
mouth hairless. Flowers are 2-lipped - upper lip is hairy, lower one is
3-lobed, midlobe larger, notched. Flowering: August-September.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Garden of Five Senses, Delhi.
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