Scutellaria indica

Scutellaria indica, Indian skullcap, is a small perennial herb of the Lamiaceae native to East and Southeast Asia, including China, Japan, the Korean peninsula, and northern Vietnam. Plants are 10 to 30 cm tall with slender, four-angled stems arising from a short rhizome, often forming low colonies. The leaves are opposite, ovate to cordate, with crenate margins, soft hairs on both surfaces, and short petioles. Flowers are borne in short terminal racemes, each consisting of a tubular two-lipped corolla 1.5 to 2.5 cm long; the corollas are typically pale to deep blue-violet with a hooded upper lip and a spreading, paler lower lip marked with darker spots. The calyx bears the diagnostic scale-like crest of the genus on the upper lip. It grows on shaded, moist slopes, woodland edges, and grassy banks, flowering in spring.