Micromeria pulegium, (Rochel) Bentham

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 168

5. M. pulegium (Rochel) Bentham , Lab. Gen. Sp. 382 (1834).

Stems 20-50(-90) cm, erect, straight, usually simple, deflexedpuberulent or -pubescent. Leaves 10-30 x 5-20 mm, ovate, obtuse to acute, more or less crenate-dentate, shortly appressedpubescent, densely punctate beneath. Verticillasters with 10-70 flowers, lax, the lowest shorter and the upper longer than the subtending leaves. Calyx 3-5-4 mm, shortly pubescent, sparsely hairy in throat; teeth j - j as long as tube, linear-lanceolate or -setaceous, equal. Corolla 7-9 mm, white or lilac. Nutlets obtuse. • S.W. Romania. Rm.