It is a low-lying shrub with egg-shaped to heart-shaped stem-leaves with a gradual transition to flora bracts on the upper part of the stem, and small groups of pink flowers.

Anisomeles ajugacea is a low-lying to prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of 5–20 cm (2.0–7.9 in) and is sparsely covered with hairs.

[2] This species was first formally described in 1888 by Frederick Manson Bailey and Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Teucrium ajugaceum.

[2][4] For many years, the species was thought to be extinct, until it was rediscovered on Cape York, between Cooktown and Lockhart River in May 2004.

[5][6] Anisomelea ajugacea grows on low rises and flats in woodland within a 40 km (25 mi) radius of Musgrave on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland.