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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hedeoma hispida
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_hehi_001_lvd
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Dixie Damrel dzd_1447
May Greenville County SC
Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, 1-4mm wide, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_hedeoma_hispida_c_b
August
Corolla two-lipped.
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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.
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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
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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