Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Dracocephalum parviflorum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about American Dragonhead at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dracocephalum parviflorum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Dracocephalum parviflorum
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Dracocephalum parviflorum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-11-001:
Moldavica parviflora FAMILY Lamiaceae
COMMON NAME:
American Dragonhead
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_mopa4_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Dracocephalum parviflorum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Dracocephalum parviflorum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Dracocephalum parviflorum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Dracocephalum parviflorum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-11-001:
Moldavica parviflora
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
4441
Forb
Annual? Biennial? Perennial?
Habitat: Cultivated ground, per Weakley's Flora
Native: western North America
Waif(s)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Bracts subtending flowers spinulose-dentate
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue to whitish
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
4 fertile stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Mericarp
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