1156

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)

Look for it in disturbed areas, pastures, roadsides, bottomland forests, other forests & woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

To see a detailed map, click here

 

...Variable

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite & often basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Violet
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower three-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Brown
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p088?
• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p378
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p078?
• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p406
• Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p203?
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p080?
• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p216?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p224?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p267?
• Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p431
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p143?
• Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p133?

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Prunella vulgaris ssp. lanceolata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-12-001?:
Prunella vulgaris   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Prunella vulgaris