Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (11/30/12):
Trichostema brachiatum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Glade Blue Curls at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trichostema brachiatum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Isanthus brachiatus
COMMON NAME:
Glade Blue Curls, False Pennyroyal, Fluxweed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_isbr3_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_i_brachiatus_ccc
October Catoosa County GA
Chickamauga Cedar Glades
Leaves lanceolate to elliptic, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_isanthus_brachiatus
October Catoosa County GA
Chickamauga Cedar Glades
Calyx and corolla almost radially symmetrical. Stamens straight, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (11/30/12):
Trichostema brachiatum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
(?) SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trichostema brachiatum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Isanthus brachiatus
3719
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Habitat: Shale barrens, outcrops of calcareous or mafic rock, diabase barrens, calcareous dry prairies, disturbed rocky areas, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have short petioles.
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Light blue
Bisexual
Almost radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
4 stamens, straight, only slightly exserted
Superior ovary
Flowers in clusters of 1-3, in axils of upper leaves and bracts
FRUIT:
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p404
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p233
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p261
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p146