Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Scutellaria montana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria montana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Scutellaria serrata var. montana
COMMON NAME:
Large-flowered Skullcap
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_montansloppyfloyd6s
May Chattooga County GA
Sloppy Floyd State Park
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_scutellaria_montana_4
May
Lower lip pale blue w 2 white streaks edged by dark blue lines and splotches, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_scutellaria_montana_s
May
Flowers 1" or more, with an erect white tube & pale blue hood-like upper lip, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Scutellaria montana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria montana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Scutellaria serrata var. montana
2924
Forb
Perennial
Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - -
Rare
Look for it in mesic hardwood (or hardwood-shortleaf pine) 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.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Whitish-blue
(lower lip with 2 white streaks bordered by dark blue lines and splotches)
Bisexual
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
FRUIT:
Summer
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia p345
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p080
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p229
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p272