Leaves: Petiolate, cordate or truncate at base, margins dentate with blunt teeth, 20–60 mm long.
الأزهار
Inflorescence & flowers: Flowers condensed in a dense terminal spike, partly subtended by the uppermost leaf pair; bracts subulate, more or less plumose, exceeding the calyces and protruding from the spike. Flowers horizontal, later somewhat deflexed, shortly pedicellate. Calyx velvety-hispid, slightly accrescent, bilabiate, upper tooth ovate-obtuse, mucronate, lateral teeth smaller, basal teeth lanceolate. Corolla whitish, only slightly exceeding the calyx; stamens included.
الثمار والبذور
Fruit: Nutlets ovoid, smooth.
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation: Hedges and bushes, in Mediterranean zones.