Prostanthera ferricola
Prostanthera ferricola is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to central Western Australia. It is an erect, openly branched shrub with aromatic, egg-shaped leaves and mauve-purple flowers arranged in four to twelve leaf axils near the end of branchlets. Description. "Prostanthera ferricola" is an erect, openly branched shrub that typically grows to a height of and has cylindrical, densely hairy, glandular branchlets. The leaves are egg-shaped, strongly aromatic when crushed, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly in four to twelve leaf axils near  the ends of branchlets, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals form a tube long with two lobes, the lower lobe green or faintly purple and long, the upper lobe purple-mauve and long. The petals are mauve-purple, long and form a tube long with two lips. The lower lip has three lobes, the centre lobe egg-shaped, long and wide and the side lobes long and wide. The upper lip is broadly egg-shaped, long and wide and deeply divided into two lobes. Flowering occurs from July to September. Taxonomy. "Prostanthera ferricola" was first formally described in  1987 by Barry Conn and Kelly Anne Shepherd in the journal "Nuytsia" from specimens collected in the Robinson Ranges in 2006. Distribution and habitat. This mintbush grows in sparse "Acacia aneura" shrubland in the Murchison and Gascoyne biogeographic regions of Western Australia. Conservation status. "Prostanthera ferricola" is classified "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.