Japanese name: オキナワクルマバナ（沖縄車花） Scientific name:Clinopodium chinense subsp. chinense
[Overview]
A perennial 20–80 cm tall, found in sunny grasslands and along roadsides.
The whole plant is densely hairy, and it does not produce stolon-like underground stems.
The stem creeps along the ground at the base, rises in the upper part, and is square in cross section.
Leaves are simple and opposite, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3–7 cm long and 1.5–3 cm wide, with a toothed margin.
They have petioles.
Several tiers of verticillasters at the stem tip bear two-lipped flowers, reddish purple to white, 0.7–0.9 cm long.
The calyx is hairy.
The bracts are about as long as the calyx or longer, linear, and have long hairs.
The fruit is a schizocarp.
