485

Forb
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas
Documented growing wild in - NC SC

Rare as a native, more common as an escape from cultivation

Look for it on streambanks, seepages, marshes, grassy balds (native occurrences usually over mafic or calcareous rocks), other open or semi-open moist to wet habitats, disturbed areas, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist ...Variable ...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pink/Lavender
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate calyx
2-lipped tubular corolla, upper lip hood-like
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Olive-brown
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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

• All About South Carolina Wildflowers p223?
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p169?
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p159?
• Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p132?
• Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p400
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p094?
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p080?
• Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p162?
• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p216?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p224?
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p266?
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p142?

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

LESS THAN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 164-13-001:
Dracocephalum virginianum   FAMILY Lamiaceae