Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Leonotis leonurus
Common name
Lion's Ear, Lion's Tail
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Woodland, heath, near habitations, roadsides, rocky areas, and coastal sand dunes. Mainly coastal
Notes
Introduced shrub to about 3 m high. Branches densely hairy with short and long hairs, sticky. Stems square in cross section. Leaves opposite each other, aromatic when rubbed, 4–8 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, green, sparsely to densely hairy, sticky, margins irregularly toothed, tips pointed. Flowers bright orange, 30–55 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, the upper lip slightly hooded and indistintly 2-lobed, the lower lip 3-lobed. Flowers in dense clusters of about 20–40 flowers. Flowering: throughout the year.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leonotis~leonurus (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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