Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Salvia lyrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Lyreleaf Sage at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salvia lyrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-22-001:
Salvia lyrata FAMILY Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Salvia lyrata
COMMON NAME:
Lyreleaf Sage, Cancer-weed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_saly2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm150226_711
February Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm150226_711b
February Pickens County SC
Calyx 7-10mm long; mericarps 2-2.3mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Gill Newberry gn04_s_lyrata_habitat
April
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Gill Newberry gn04_salvia_lyrata_inflor
April
Corolla about 1" long, usually 6 flowers per node, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm0504f_19
April McCormick County SC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm200403_3432
April Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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Keith Bradley kab_salvia_lyrata_02744
April GA
Terminal raceme 4-12" long; flower clusters widely separated, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Keith Bradley kab_salvia_lyrata_09088
April Collier County FL
Big Cypress National Preserve
A tubular 2-lipped corolla, upper lip shorter than the broad lower lip, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Roxanna Martin rlm42411_54
April Spartanburg County SC
Stigma unequally two-cleft, exserted, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Roxanna Martin rlm42411_70
April Spartanburg County SC
Calyx's upper lip is 3-toothed, lower 2-toothed; teeth are spine-tipped, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm0405n_33
May Greenville County SC
Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
Basal leaves deeply lobed and long-stalked, forming a rosette, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977).
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JK Marlow jkm150509_006b
May Dawson County GA
Dawson Forest WMA
Flowers growing in few-flowered whorls in an interrupted spike, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm230525_3464
May Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm230525_3465
May Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Roxanna Martin rlm52111_203
May Spartanburg County SC
Mericarps dark brown, finely warted, dull, obovoid to ellipsoid, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Sharleen Johnson shj_1293665811427559
December Charleston County SC
Francis Marion National Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Salvia lyrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salvia lyrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-22-001:
Salvia lyrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Salvia lyrata
1307
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: hammocks, lawns, roadsides, dry to mesic woodlands and forests, floodplains, calcareous barrens, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite
FLOWER:
Winter/SpringFall
Blue/Violet
(rarely white)
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped 5-toothed calyx
2-lipped tubular corolla
2 fertile exserted stamens & possibly some sterile stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p246
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p112
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p030
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p094
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p417
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p198
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p081
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p218
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p242
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p226
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p269
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p147
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p339
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