Plectranthus argentatus S.T.Blake

Fast growing grey shrub to about 1 m tall, hardly aromatic, stems hairy. Leaves ovate, to about 10 cm long, 5 cm wide, tip pointed, margin with many rounded teeth, both surfaces distinctively silver-grey-hairy, more densely so on the lower surface; stalk 1-5 cm long. Flower with corolla pale blue, the tube straight; summer to autumn.

Qld, NSW

Source: Lumley, P. (2002). Origanum. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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Distribution map
kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Lamiales
family       Lamiaceae
genus        Plectranthus L'Hér.