Duration: Perennial

Nativity: Native

Lifeform: Forb/Herb

General: Perennial with slender wiry stems, 20-30 cm tall, herbage glabrate to puberulent.

Leaves: Entire, narrowly lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 6-15 mm long, 1-4 mm wide, conspicuously veined, stiffly erect or ascending.

Flowers: Calyx 6-7 mm long, hispidulous, the upper lobes triangular-lanceolate, broader than the lower ones; corolla purplish, tube 8-11 mm long.

Fruits: Ovary deeply 4-parted, with 4 nutlets.

Ecology: Found on rocky slops in canyons from 5,000-9,500 ft (1524-2896 m); flowers May-October.

Notes: Distinguished by the narrowly lanceolate leaves with conspicuous veins.

Ethnobotany: Unknown, but other species in the genera have uses.

Etymology: Hedeoma is from the Greek hedus, sweet, and osme, odor, an ancient name for a strongly aromatic mint, while hyssopifolia means having leaves like Hyssop.

Synonyms: None

Editor: SBuckley, 2010