Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Salvia reflexa
Common name
Mintweed
Family
Lamiaceae
Where found
Weed of pastures, cultivation, roadsides and waste places. Mainly on flood plains. Widespread but not common.
Notes
Introduced annual shrub to 0.7 m high. Stems four-angled, more or less densely hairy with short hairs, with a blue-green appearance. Leaves strongly mint-scented when rubbed. Leaves opposite each other, 1.5–5 cm long, 4–12 mm wide, tips blunt or rarely pointed; base tapering; margins almost entire, with shallow distant teeth; more or less densely covered with short curved simple hairs. Flowers pale blue, 7–10 mm long, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes. Flowers single at the base of each of paired leaves or leaflike bracts, the bracts falling early. Flowers often forming elongated clusters up the stems. Flowers October–May.
General Biosecurity Duty all NSW.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Salvia~reflexa (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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