Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Pycnanthemum albescens
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Read more about Whiteleaf Mountain-mint at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pycnanthemum albescens
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Koellia albescens
COMMON NAME:
Whiteleaf Mountain-mint, White Mountain-mint
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_koal4_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Pycnanthemum albescens
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pycnanthemum albescens
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Koellia albescens
2901
Forb
Perennial
Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - -
Rare in GA
Look for it bluff forests, hammocks, other open, mesic forests, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer
White/Lavender
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-toothed calyx
2-lipped 4-lobed corolla
4 stamens, usually exserted
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
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