Lepechinia calycina is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name pitchersage or woodbalm.

Lepechinia calycina is an aromatic shrub with parts of its bark covered in long hairs, some of which have resin glands in them.

Each flower is encased in a cuplike calyx of sepals which are green when new and age to reddish purple.

The tiny fruit develops within the sepal cup after the flower falls.

The Miwok, a Native American group of California, used an extract of the leaves of this plant to treat fever and headache.