1175

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in bogs, wet meadows, moist to wet forests, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
White/Pinkish
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-toothed calyx
2-lipped 4-lobed corolla
4 stamens, usually exserted
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p234
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p163
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p163
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p078
• Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p041
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p225
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p268
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p141
• Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p125

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 164-28-001:
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Koellia flexuosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Pycnanthemum flexuosum