Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Physostegia virginiana ssp. virginiana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Physostegia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_drvi3_001_lvd
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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.
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JK Marlow jkm0308s_22
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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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.
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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.
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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.
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
485
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas
Habitat: 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
NEW! Click here to see a map from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US showing range and abundance.
Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)
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?