Lepechinia cardiophylla is an aromatic shrub with branching stems covered in resin glands.

Each flower is a cuplike calyx of glandular sepals around a tubular white to lavender corolla.

The fruit is a dark colored, hairless body a few millimeters long which develops within the calyx of sepals.

[2] Lepechinia cardiophylla was first described from the chaparral of the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County, California, where it is mostly concentrated.

[3] In Baja California, this species is found abundantly on the Cerro Bola, and is distributed south to the coastal mountains of Ensenada to Ejido Eréndira.