The upper lip is lilac while the lower lip is cream in color. The lower part of the corolla tube is squamulate. The upper lip of the corolla has two lobules and is falcata in shape. The filament is 10-15 mm. The stigma is bifurcate and 15-35 mm. in length.
Bracts are membranous, ovate, acuminate, and mauve in color.
It has nutlet type fruit and the seed are clear brown and rounded. The normal habitat for this species is rocky , igneous slopes at a height of 2000m. with mixed deciduous and coniferous woodlands, shale banks, and field roadsides. In the root, the periderm rows are on the outer surface of the root. The cortex is multilayered and parenchymatic. The cell size in the primary cortex is larger than that of the secondary cortex.