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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hedeoma hispida   FAMILY Lamiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hedeoma hispida   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)

Hedeoma hispidum

 

COMMON NAME:
Rough Pennyroyal, Rough False Pennyroyal, Mock Pennyroyal


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image of Hedeoma hispida, Rough Pennyroyal, Rough False Pennyroyal, Mock Pennyroyal

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_hehi_001_lvd

        

image of Hedeoma hispida, Rough Pennyroyal, Rough False Pennyroyal, Mock Pennyroyal

Dixie Damrel    dzd_1447

May    Greenville County    SC

Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, 1-4mm wide, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

image of Hedeoma hispida, Rough Pennyroyal, Rough False Pennyroyal, Mock Pennyroyal

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_hedeoma_hispida_c_b

August        

Corolla two-lipped.

image of Hedeoma hispida, Rough Pennyroyal, Rough False Pennyroyal, Mock Pennyroyal

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_hedeoma_hispida_c_c

August        

Calyx teeth spreading or lower slightly convergent, orifice open at maturity, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Hedeoma hispida, Rough Pennyroyal, Rough False Pennyroyal, Mock Pennyroyal

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_hedeoma_hispida_c_s

August        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hedeoma hispida   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hedeoma hispida   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Hedeoma hispidum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3626

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Prairies, Disturbed areas, pastures, barrens, granitic flatrocks, especially in exposed, thin soil; apparently adventive eastwards in the eastern portions of our area from farther west, but the native distribution unclear, per Weakley's Flora

Native: south & west of the Carolinas & Georgia, apparently

Uncommon in Piedmont of GA & SC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Purplish/ Lavender
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped 5-lobed calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer?
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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