NameThatPlant.net: Scutellaria ovata var. bracteata

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Scutellaria ovata var. bracteata FAMILY Lamiaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Scutellaria at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

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

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
Scutellaria ovata ssp. cuthbertii

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Scutellaria ovata var. ovata

SYNONYMOUS WITH The American species of Scutellaria (Epling, 1942)
Scutellaria ovata ssp. bracteata

INCLUDING The American species of Scutellaria (Epling, 1942)
Scutellaria ovata ssp. cuthbertii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scutellaria cuthbertii

COMMON NAME:
Heartleaf Skullcap

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image of Scutellaria ovata var. bracteata, Heartleaf Skullcap

Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_ovata_hrtlf_sklcp_4

June

Lower lip with large lateral auricles (flabelliform), margins cleft and erose, per Weakley's Flora.

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Scutellaria ovata var. bracteata FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
Scutellaria ovata ssp. cuthbertii

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Scutellaria ovata var. ovata

SYNONYMOUS WITH The American species of Scutellaria (Epling, 1942)
Scutellaria ovata ssp. bracteata

INCLUDING The American species of Scutellaria (Epling, 1942)
Scutellaria ovata ssp. cuthbertii

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scutellaria cuthbertii

4032

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

Habitat: Dry forests and woodlands, hammocks, per Weakley's Flora

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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

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"Invasive exotics share several strong traits: fit well within the environment, grow rapidly, mature to produce flowers and seed at an early age, produce great quantities of seed, effectively disperse their seed (via birds, etc.), rampantly spread vegetatively, have no major pest of disease problems. Horticulturally, some of these characteristics are considered quite desirable. Thus there is the absurd irony of various governmental and environmental groups trying hard to control and eradicate in the wild some of the very same species being sold to gardeners all over the US...." — Margie Hunter, Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee