Shrubby plant with deltoid-elliptic leaves and small flowers in capitate spikes. Aromatic foliage. |
Small bluish-white flowers in short, crowded spikes. Leaves with prominent veins and aromatic oils. |
Spherical clusters of orange, red, pink and yellow tubular flowers on fast growing shrub. Aromatic. |
The inflorescence is longer and bracts crowd between the flowers after blooming. Berries purple. |
Fleshy leaves and small pale flowers in short compact spikes. Trails along soil, rooting at nodes. (Lamiaceae) |
Mostly herbaceous weedy plant with square stems and spikes of terminal flowers. Several flowering spikes together. |
Very popular, non-native ornamental shrub with variegated leaves and showy blue-purple flowers. Seeds in berries spread by birds. |
Mostly herbaceous perennial weed with narrow spikes of blue-purple flowers. Sharply serrate leaves. |
Woody shrub with large, soft, opposite leaves and long-tubular white flowers. Prominent leaf veins on underside. (Lamiaceae) |
Forest tree with medium-sized, five-parted, palmately compound leaves. Small flowers and berries in flat-topped panicles. |
Copyright
Michael J. Plagens, page created 02 Nov. 2012,
updated 12 Dec. 2016
By no means am I an expert on the Natural History of Kenya because I am new to exploring this part of the World. By creating a page for the species as I learn them I am teaching myself, sharing with others and happy to receive feedback from web site visitors.