Stachys obtusifolia

Perennial herb to 30 cm high; branches with long slender spreading hairs and shorter glandular hairs. Leaves broadly ovate to ovate-elliptic, lamina 17–35 mm long, 8–20 mm wide, surfaces densely appressed pilose or villous with long slender multicellular hairs, apex rounded or obtuse, base attenuate to cordate; petiole to 3 cm long. Inflorescence with 4–6 flowers per bract or leaf axil. Calyx 10-veined, 6–7 mm long, densely pilose, often glandular, lobes acuminate, shorter than tube; corolla white to mauve, tube slightly longer than abaxial lobe; lower pair of stamens c. equal to upper pair. Recorded flowering in Victoria in December.