Botanical name: Nepeta rotundifolia    Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Marmoritis rotundifolia, Glechoma thibetica, Nepeta thibetica

Roundleaf Catmint is a dwarf perennial herb with stems 5-10 cm rising up or prostrate, with short white eglandular hairs, purplish. Flowers are white to pale lavender, about 2 cm with a very slender tube about 1.1 cm long and a narrow funnel-shaped upper part. Lips very short, about 2-2.5 mm. Upper lip is short, 2-lobed, lower one much broader, 3-lobed. The mid-lobe is broader than the side-lobes. Sepal-cup is 1 cm long, green, straight, white-hairy with eglandular hairs, slightly two-lipped; teeth of lower lip about 4 mm, narrow linear, tapering; teeth erect after anthesis. Flowers are borne on short flower-cluster-stalks, few or solitary in leaf axils, stalkless. Bracts are linear-thread-like, 6-8 mm. Leaves are overlapping at least above, kidney-shaped to round, 5-8 x 10-15 mm, rounded toothed, flat or broad wedge-shaped, white eglandular woolly on both surfaces; venation often purplish; leaf-stalk on lower leaves up to 1 cm, less above. Roundleaf Catmint is found in Tibet to W. Himalaya, at high altitudes. Flowering: July-August.

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