Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Hyptis alata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Musky Mint at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hyptis alata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-04-001:
Hyptis alata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hyptis radiata
COMMON NAME:
Musky Mint, Cluster Bushmint
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Will Stuart wil_hyptis_alata_860
September Brunswick County NC
An erect herb to 3m tall w heads on long peduncles arising from leaf axils. — Will Stuart
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Will Stuart wil_hyptis_alata_866
September Brunswick County NC
Flowers borne in large, globose heads, 1.5-2.5cm across, on 2-6cm peduncles, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Will Stuart wil_hyptis_alata_876
September Brunswick County NC
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Keith Bradley kab_h_alata_1_kb72044_1
December Miami-Dade County FL
Navy Wells Pineland Preserve
Heads hemispheric, involucrate. Calyx teeth setaceous [bristle-like], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Hyptis alata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hyptis alata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-04-001:
Hyptis alata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hyptis radiata
3095
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in wet pine savannas, margins of swamp forests, wet powerline rights-of-way, ditches, 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:
Summer/Fall
White
(spotted with lavender)
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed corolla
4 exserted stamens (2 long, 2 short)
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p195
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p184
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p084