Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Scutellaria mollis
Soft skullcap
Lamiaceae
Forest, shrubland, grassy areas, and moist sites. Coast, ranges, and occasionally on the tablelands.
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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