Flowers and leaves. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Leaves. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Sand-sage

Family

Lamiaceae

Notes

Shrub to 1m tall.  Leaves somewhat aromatic when crushed, usually in whorls of 3, sometimes more, 0.7-2.2cm long, 2-4mm wide, linear to flat, hairy, the edges curved downwards, with blunt tips.  Flowers white to pale mauve, tubular, with five lobes, in clusters of 9 flowers, composed of 3 sub-clusters, subtended by whorls of 3 leaflike bracts, at the tops of the stems.  Family Chloanthaceae in SA.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 571

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dicrastylis~verticillata