An erect, clump-forming perennial herbs 3-20 dm tall, sometimes somewhat woody toward base; stems erect, conspicuously quadrangular, scabrous to hispid. Leaves decussate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 4.5-13 cm long, 0.6-2 cm wide, upper surface rugose and hirtellous, lower surface spreading pubescent, both surfaces occasionally hirsute or scabrous, margins somewhat revolute, unequally serrate, entire toward base, apex acute, base cordate, sessile and somewhat clasping the stem. Flowers numerous in 4-10 spikes 1-2 (-5) cm long, these in a paniculate arrangement, bracts lanceolate, as long as or slightly longer than calyx; calyx ca. 3 mm long, hispidulous, not glandular pubescent; corolla blue, violet, lavender, or purple, the tube ca. 6-7 mm long.

Floridata
PIER