2956

Forb
Perennial

Native

Documented growing wild in (GA) (NC) (SC)

Look for it in wet meadows & mesic forests, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
White/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

 

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

• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p081?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p231?

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Stachys hispida   FAMILY Lamiaceae

(?) INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys tenuifolia   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Stachys tenuifolia var. tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Stachys tenuifolia var. hispida