Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Scutellaria mollis
Common name
Soft skullcap
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Forest, shrubland, grassy areas, and moist sites. Coast, ranges, and occasionally on the tablelands.
Notes
Perennial herb, trailing, often rooting from the lower nodes. Stems 4-angled, with simple and glandular hairs. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 1–4 cm long, 7–20 mm wide, bases more or less squared off; margins coarsely toothed; upper surface with scattered, usually non-glandular hairs, lower surface with many stalkless and stalked glands, and a few hairs, particularly near the margins, tips blunt to pointed. Flowers white with pink markings or pinkish overall, 9–10 mm long, 2-lipped with 5 lobes, the lower lip at least twice as long as the upper lip. Calyx green. Flowers single at the base of each of paired leaves. Flowers Oct.–Jan.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Scutellaria~mollis (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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