Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prostanthera nivea var. nivea
Common name
Snowy mint-bush
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Forest, heath, shrubland, and rocky areas. Widespread, but not in Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m high. Branches 4-ridged, hairless to sparsely covered with white appressed hairs, glands inconspicuous. Not aromatic. Leaves opposite each other, 1–5 cm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, hairless to sparsely covered with white appressed hairs, light to bright green, glands inconspicuous; margins entire, flat to rolled upwards, tips blunt to more or less pointed, bases continuing down the stems. Flowers white to pale mauve, with yellow spots in the throat, 14–18 mm long, with a bell-shaped tube, 2-lipped, 5-lobed. Calyx 2-lobed. Flowers single at the base of paired leaves, often crowded towards the ends of the branches in a leafy 'spike'. Flowering: spring.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Prostanthera~nivea (accessed 3 February, 2021)
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