Soft perennial spreading herb to about 40 cm tall, covered with purplish hair. Leaves elliptic to ovate or roundish, 4-8 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, margins regularly and shallowly round-toothed, with 8-14 pairs of teeth, lower surface generally purple with yellow glands; stalk 2-4 cm long. Flowers with corolla 1-1.5 cm long, white, spotted with purple; year round.

SE Africa

Naturalised in the Sydney district and also in Victoria.

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.