212

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Common in NC Mountains

Look for it in rocky or alluvial forests, montane forests up to at least 5000 feet elevation, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 4-lobed corolla
2 exserted stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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

• Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p022
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p140
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p112
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p084
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p082
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p217
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p257
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p140

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Blephilia hirsuta   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Blephilia hirsuta var. hirsuta   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-24-001:
Blephilia hirsuta   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Blephilia hirsuta