Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Plectranthus parviflorus
Common name
Cockspur flower
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Forest, rocky places, and stream banks. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Shrub to 0.7 m high, with a fleshy swollen base to about 3 cm diameter. Stems 4-angled, moderately hairy, sometimes sticky. Stems dying away after flowering. Non-aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, 2–6.5 cm long, 20–40 mm wide, tips blunt to more or less pointed; margins scalloped to blunt-toothed with 4–12 pairs of teeth; lower surface sparsely hairy, hairs denser on the upper surface, occasionally with a few stalkless glands. Flowers 6–11 mm long, white or pale blue to violet-blue, tubular, the tube strongly curved, 2-lipped, the lower lip entire; the upper lip 3- or 4-lobed. Flowers in elongated clusters. Flowers all year.
Intergrades with Plectranthus graveolens.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Plectranthus~parviflorus (accessed 1 February, 2021)
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