| Plant: A perennial herb in clumps a foot or 2 tall with square, woolly, white stems, but no mint odor. Horehound candy sucked for a sore throat used to be available in drug stores. Common. |   |
| Flowers: The small white flowers are crowded in dense whorls in the axils of the upper leaves. |   |
| Fruit: The fruit becomes a bur when dry and attaches itself to animal fur spilling the little nutlets where they will prosper. |   |
| Leaf: The leaves are thick gray-green with prominent veins roundish with wrinkles and covered beneath with matted, white hairs. |  . |
| Flowering period: | Spring and Summer |
| Can be found here: | Everywhere |
| Native Plant: No | Halophyte: No |
| Family Name: Mint |
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Date: 11/16/2003
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