PDF Version - 169KB FAMILY: Lamiaceae (Mint family) STATUS:
Endangered (Federal Register, November 1,1985) DESCRIPTION AND
REPRODUCTION: A strongly aromatic plant, longspurred mint grows
up to 1.6 feet tall, with erect, non-woody flowering shoots
growing from a woody base. The leaves are about .58 of an inch
long, linear, with entire margins, and covered with conspicuous
sunken glands. The leaves are borne opposite one another on the
stems, often with two smaller leaves at each node. Flowers are
borne in groups in the axils of the leaves on the upper parts of
the stems. The petals are 7 millimeters (0.3 of an inch) long,
forming a tube with two lips, bent at a 90-degree angle in the
middle, and colored purplish-rose with deep purple markings and
a whitish throat. The anthers are tipped by a spur 1.2
millimeters long, for which the plant is named. Longspurred mint
flowers in September and produces fruits in the form of four
small nutlets. This is a short-lived perennial that grows from
seed; the species does n