Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides var. pycnanthemoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Read more about Woodland Mountain-mint at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides var. pycnanthemoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-28-008?:
Pycnanthemum incanum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides var. pycnanthemoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides var. pycnanthemoides
INCLUDING
A study of Pycnanthemum (Labiatae) (Grant & Epling, 1943)
Pycnanthemum tullia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Koellia pycnanthemoides
COMMON NAME:
Woodland Mountain-mint, Southern Mountain-mint
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_kopy2_001_lvd
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Gill Newberry gn07_p_pycnanthemoides_pl
July
Longest calyx lobes more than half as long as the calyx tube, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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JK Marlow jkm190704_9801
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190704_9803
July Greenville County SC
Leaves ovate, 13-50mm wide, < 3× as long as wide, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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JK Marlow jkm190704_9804
July Greenville County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides var. pycnanthemoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides var. pycnanthemoides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-28-008?:
Pycnanthemum incanum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides var. pycnanthemoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides var. pycnanthemoides
INCLUDING
A study of Pycnanthemum (Labiatae) (Grant & Epling, 1943)
Pycnanthemum tullia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Koellia pycnanthemoides
2110
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont
Habitat: forests and woodland borders, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer
White to lavender
spotted with purple
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!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p149?
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p197
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p083
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p267
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p126