Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Japanese Mazus at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Mazus pumilus
FAMILY
Mazaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mazus pumilus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
(?)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-08-001:
Mazus japonicus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
COMMON NAME:
Japanese Mazus
Click or hover over the thumbnails to see larger pictures.
)
JK Marlow jkm120330_311
March Pickens County SC
Plant erect, pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
)
JK Marlow jkm120330_313
March Pickens County SC
)
JK Marlow jkm120330_315
March Pickens County SC
Leaves mostly basal, opposite, spatulate; uppermost become alternate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
)
JK Marlow jkm120330_315b
March Pickens County SC
)
JK Marlow jkm150424_647
April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Calyx 5-parted, campanulate, lobes lanceolate, longer than the tube, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
)
JK Marlow jkm140523_168
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Upper lip short, 2-toothed; lower larger, 3-lobed with orange&white palate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
)
JK Marlow jkm190913_1401
September Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Inflorescence more or less 1-sided, glandular and eglandular short-hairy, per The European Garden Flora. Vol.6 Dicotyledons Longaniaceae to Compositae (Cullen et al., 2000).
)
Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_mazus_pumilus_2
September
)
JK Marlow jkm201004_7604
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail