Jamesbrittenia breviflora

Jamesbrittenia breviflora, commonly the shortflowered sutera or sometimes the shortflower jaybee and previously scientifically Sutera breviflora, is a tufted, straggling herb reaching 30 cm in height, its spreading branches up to 60 cm long. The aromatic plant is covered in glistening glandular hairs rendering the stems sticky. The plants last well for about three years.

The species distribution is in the southwest of KwaZulu-Natal and inland in the northeast of the Eastern Cape, as well as in Lesotho. The photo was taken near the Sani Pass. 

The habitat is open, rocky and seasonally moist grassland slopes at elevations from 1000 m to 3000 m in the Drakensberg and Malutis. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Manning, 2009; Pooley, 1998; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org; http://redlist.sanbi.org).