What is "micromeria douglasii"

Yerba \Yer"ba\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.) An herb; a plant.

Note: This word is much used in compound names of plants in Spanish; as, yerba buena [Sp., a good herb], a name applied in Spain to several kinds of mint ( Mentha sativa, viridis, etc.), but in California universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate plant ( Micromeria Douglasii).

Yerba dol osa. [Sp., herb of the she-bear.] A kind of buckthorn ( Rhamnus Californica).

Yerba mansa. [Sp., a mild herb, soft herb.] A plant ( Anemopsis Californica) with a pungent, aromatic rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the Indians.

Yerba reuma. [Cf. Sp. reuma rheum, rheumatism.] A low California undershrub ( Frankenia grandifolia).

Clinopodium douglasii, or yerba buena, is a rambling aromatic herb of western and northwestern North America, ranging from maritime Alaska southwards to California. The plant takes the form of a sprawling, mat-forming perennial, and is especially abundant close to the coast. The name " yerba buena" derives from Spanish for "good herb" and is applied to various other plants.

Molecular evidence places the species within the Clinopodium complex rather than Micromeria.