Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Physostegia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Physostegia virginiana ssp. virginiana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Physostegia virginiana ssp. virginiana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-13-001:
Dracocephalum virginianum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Northern Obedient-plant, False Dragonhead, Obedient-plant
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JK Marlow jkm0406a_26
June York County SC
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden
Leaves are narrowly lanceolate and sharply toothed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Keith Bradley kab_p_virginiana_78601
August Canada
Montreal Botanical Garden
The upper lip is entire and helmet-like; lower lip is shorter with 3 lobes, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
Keith Bradley kab_p_virginiana_78607
August Canada
Montreal Botanical Garden
Each plant has four rows of 1" long zygomorphic flowers, per Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition.
JK Marlow jkm0509f_22
September Rutherford County NC
In cultivation
Calyx lobes ascending and less than 1/3 the length of the tube, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.