Prostanthera serpyllifolia
Prostanthera serpyllifolia, commonly known as small-leaved mint-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a small shrub with small egg-shaped leaves and bright pink to red or metallic bluish-green flowers. Description Prostanthera serpyllifolia is a prostrate to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of less than with hairy white branches. The leaves are egg-shaped to broadly elliptic, long and wide and sessile or on a petiole up to long. The flowers are borne in leaf axils on a pedicel long with bracteoles usually long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are long and form a tube long with lobes long. The petals are bright pink to mid red, often white near the base, sometimes with a yellow tinge, and sometimes metallic bluish green, long forming a tube long. The lower middle lobe of the petal tube is long and wide, the side lobes long and wide. The upper lip of the petal tube is long and wide with a small central notch. Flowering occurs in April or from June to December. Taxonomy Small-leaved mint-bush was first formally described in 1810 by botanist Robert Brown, who