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

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...Wet

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 Carolina Lowcountry p184
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p084

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

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 (1968) 164-04-001:
Hyptis alata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Hyptis radiata