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3354


Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common in Coastal Plain, uncommon in Piedmont, rare in Mountains

Look for it in marshes, wet areas, wet pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White or shaded with lavender
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (apparently 4-lobed, but the upper two lobes are fused)
2 stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers solitary in axils of leafy bracts

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Sophronanthe pilosa   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Gratiola pilosa   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 166-07-001:
 Gratiola pilosa   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Tragiola pilosa

 

COMMON NAME:
 Shaggy Hedge-hyssop, Pilose Hedge-hyssop

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image of Sophronanthe pilosa, Shaggy Hedge-hyssop, Pilose Hedge-hyssop

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_sopi4_001_lvd

        

image of Sophronanthe pilosa, Shaggy Hedge-hyssop, Pilose Hedge-hyssop

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_s_pilosa_shaggyhedge2

July        

Flowers occur singly at leaf bases, nearly sessile, with two leafy bracts, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.

image of Sophronanthe pilosa, Shaggy Hedge-hyssop, Pilose Hedge-hyssop

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_s_pilosa_shaggyhedgeh

July        

Plant usually unbranched, pilose (hairs stick straight out), per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.