Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Russell Best, Wyperfeld National Park, Vic

Plant. Photo: Russell Best, Murray Sunset National Park, Vic

Plant. Photo: Russell Best, Murray Sunset National Park, Vic

Common Name

Small-leaved Mintbush, Small Mintbush

Family

Lamiaceae

Notes

Shrub to 1.6m tall. Leaves aromatic when crushed, opposite each other or clustered, 0.1-0.38cm long, 0.5-2.7mm wide, flat, hairy to hairless, with glandular scales, margins flat or turned down. Flowers bright pink to red, or blue-green to grey-green, tubular, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes, the upper 2 lobes often joined together, solitary at the bases of the leaves.

Description and photo (as Prostanthera microphylla) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 579

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=in&name=Prostanthera~serpyllifolia~subsp.+microphylla