| Scientific Name | Marrubium vulgare | ||||||||||||
| Family Name | Mint ( Lamiaceae ) | ||||||||||||
| 5 petals, Square stems
Upright, woolly-hairy, rank-smelling perenial herb to 2.5 ft. Flowers: To 1/4 in, 5 petals, white to cream, united into tubular shape. 2-lipped at rim. Upper lip 2-lobed, erect. Lower lip 3 lobed, wide-spreading. Flowers in doughnutlike circles around square stem. Leaves: To 2 in long, opposite, short-stalked, bladethick, wrinckled, conspicuously vein, rough on upper surface, white-woolly beneath, margins with rounded teeth. | |||||||||||||
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Reference: Niehaus, Ripper, Savage Peterson Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers p. 90 Geyata Ajilvsgi Wildflowers of Texas p. 75 | |||||||||||||
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