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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Scutellaria serrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Showy Skullcap at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria serrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Scutellaria serrata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-05-007:
Scutellaria serrata FAMILY Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Scutellaria serrata var. serrata
SYNONYMOUS WITH The American species of Scutellaria (Epling, 1942)
Scutellaria serrata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scutellaria serrata
COMMON NAME:
Showy Skullcap, Serrate Skullcap
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_scse5_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0305t_04
May Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Stem normally smooth below flowers. Lvs essentially smooth on both sides, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_scutellaria_serrata
June
Racemes normally solitary, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_scutellaria_serrata_2
June
The helmet-shaped upper lip covers the 4 stamens, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_scutellaria_serrata2
June
With flowers 1" or more in length, this species is well named, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_scutellaria_serrata3
June
2-4" ovate toothed leaves with bases that narrow abruptly to long petioles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Scutellaria serrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria serrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Scutellaria serrata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-05-007:
Scutellaria serrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Scutellaria serrata var. serrata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
The American species of Scutellaria (Epling, 1942)
Scutellaria serrata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scutellaria serrata
1346
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Rich forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon in NC, rare in GA & SC
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Whitish-blue
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lobed calyx with a distinct protuberance on the upper surface
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower plate-like
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Inflorescence a raceme
FRUIT:
Summer
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p253
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p098
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p349
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p408
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p229
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p272
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p148
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