4032

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC -

Rare

Look for it in dry forests and woodlands, hammocks, per Weakley's Flora

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Blue/ Violet
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lobed calyx with a distinct protuberance on the upper surface
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower plate-like
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Inflorescence a raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p253?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p230?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p270
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p149?

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Scutellaria ovata ssp. bracteata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria ovata ssp. bracteata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
Scutellaria ovata ssp. cuthbertii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scutellaria cuthbertii