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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hedeoma pulegioides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about American Pennyroyal at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hedeoma pulegioides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-25-001:
Hedeoma pulegioides FAMILY Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hedeoma pulegioides
COMMON NAME:
American Pennyroyal
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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969 mpa_page_139
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_hepu_001_lvd
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_hedeoma_pulegioides
September Catawba County NC
A strongly aromatic, usually branched plant. Flowers in clusters in lf axils, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hedeoma pulegioides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hedeoma pulegioides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-25-001:
Hedeoma pulegioides
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hedeoma pulegioides
638
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Dry soils of woodlands, roadbanks, woods-roads, especially common in shaly parts of the mountains, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in GA Mountains & Carolina Coastal Plain)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White/ Bluish
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 4-lobed corolla
2 exserted fertile stamens & often 2 sterile stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in axillary clusters
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown/Black
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p080
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p406
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p234
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p261
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p145
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