Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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2953

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon

Look for it in moist soils of savannas, marshes, seasonally flooded sinkhole ponds, roadside ditches, per Weakley's Flora

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...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
Pink/Lavender
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower three-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Stachys hyssopifolia var. hyssopifolia   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Stachys hyssopifolia   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 164-20-002a:
 Stachys hyssopifolia var. hyssopifolia   FAMILY Lamiaceae

(?) -
 Stachys atlantica

 

COMMON NAME:
 Hyssop-leaved Hedgenettle

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image of Stachys hyssopifolia var. hyssopifolia, Hyssop-leaved Hedgenettle

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_stat2_001_lvd

        

Stachys atlantica

image of Stachys hyssopifolia var. hyssopifolia, Hyssop-leaved Hedgenettle

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_sthy3_001_lvd