Description
''Prostanthera baxteri'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of with stems that usually appear white because of their dense covering of white hairs. The leaves are narrow egg-shaped to linear, light green, long, wide and sessile. The flowers are arranged singly on the ends of branchlets in eight to fourteen leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are green with a maroon tinge and form a tube long with two lobes, the lower lobe long and the upper lobe long. The petals are white with a tinge of blue to pale mauve, and fused to form a tube long. The lower lip has three lobes, the centre lobe spatula-shaped, long and wide and the side lobes long and wide. The upper lip has two lobes long and about wide. Flowering occurs from August to November.Taxonomy
''Prostanthera baxteri'' was first formally described in 1834 by George Bentham in his book ''Labiatarum genera et species'', from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham. TheDistribution and habitat
This mintbush grows on granite outcrops, rocky places and sandplains in mallee and heath communities in the Esperance Plains and MalleeConservation status
''Prostanthera baxteri'' is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian GovernmentReferences
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15355119 baxteri Flora of Western Australia Lamiales of Australia Taxa named by Allan Cunningham (botanist) Plants described in 1834