Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Trichostema brachiatum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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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 (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
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Look for it in 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 more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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