Much branched low shrub with a thick woody rootstock and ascending-erect flowering stems to 40 cm. Stems with an eglandular indumentum of very short spreading or retrorse hairs, rather densely leafy. Leaves variable in shape, linear oblong to elliptic, 8-15 x 3-5 mm, with reddish punctate glands and with or without very short eglandular hairs, apically acute, basally cuneate, subsessile. Verticillasters below shortly pedunculate and distinct, upper ± sessile and conferted forming elongated spikes 7-15 cm long. Bracts shorter than calyx tube. Calyx c. 4 mm long, with ± spreading short hairs and red punctate glands; teeth triangular to triangular-lanceolate, c. 2/3 length of tube. Corolla white or pale rose, 5-6.5 mm long. Nutlets c. 1.5 x 0.5 mm, trigonous, apically somewhat umbonate or beaked.