Ajuga parviflora Benth.
Annual (?) or short-lived perennial. Stems spreading or ascending, 10-25 cm, usually unbranched, with a sparse to dense eglandular indumentum of long villous multicellular hairs. Leaves rosette-forming or not, variable in size, up to 45 x 25 mm, obovate-spathulate to elliptic, entire to crenate, narrowed into petiole, entire to irregularly crenate, with multicellular eglandular hairs, thin-textured; petiole on basal leaves up to 20 mm; cauline leaves smaller than basal and decreasing up the stem. The inflorescence is unbranched of up to 18 distant or approximating 8-12-flowered verticillasters. Calyx 2.5-4 mm with a similar indumentum to stem and with or without sessile oil globules, campanulate; teeth triangular lanceolate, acute, as long as the tube; basally enlarged as nutlets mature. Corolla pink, bluish-white to white, 5-6 (-8) mm, pilose; tube slender, shortly exserted from calyx lobes. Stamens are usually included in corolla tubes. Nutlets pale brown, transversely rugose with prominent ridges, c. 1.5 x 1 mm.
Fl. Per.: March-June.
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