Chelone obliqua L.

Shrub to about 50 cm tall. Leaves more or less lanceolate, short-stalked. Flowers about 2.5 cm long, in dense spikes, purple, the lower lip with a pale yellow beard of hair.

N America

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Scrophulariaceae. 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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kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Lamiales
family       Plantaginaceae
genus        Chelone L.