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Common Name:
Princess Tree, Empress Tree, Royal Paulownia
Showy erect panicles of pale-violet flowers, tubular with 5 unequal lobes, per Nonnative Invasive Plants of Southern Forests.
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Common Name:
Pool-sprite, Snorkelwort, Little Amphianthus
Flowers less than 1/4" long, with a short tube and 5 spreading lobes, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia.
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Common Name:
Tropical Water-hyssop
GREATER THAN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Bacopa stragula
Leaves strongly clasping, mostly ovate. Corolla without a yellow throat, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Blue Water-hyssop, Sweet Water-hyssop, Carolina Water-hyssop, Lemon Bacopa
Flowers bell-shaped with 5 lobes (the upper 2 joined for half their length), per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Mecardonia, Common Axilflower
LESS THAN
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Bacopa acuminata
Corolla white, with purple veins. The long, ascending pedicels are distinctive, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Shaggy Hedge-hyssop, Pilose Hedge-hyssop
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Tragiola pilosa
Flowers occur singly at leaf bases, nearly sessile, with two leafy bracts, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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Common Name:
Yellow Hedge-hyssop, Golden-pert
Flowers long-stalked in leaf axils, 2-lipped with lower lip 3-lobed, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide.
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Common Name:
Mud-hyssop, Mud Hedge-hyssop
LESS THAN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Gratiola neglecta
Leaves finely toothed, elliptic. Flowers 3/8" long, tube yellow, lobes white, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Round-fruit Hedge-hyssop, Virginia Hedge-hyssop
Nearly 2' tall; leaves elliptical; flowers on stout but very short pedicels, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Pineland Hedge-hyssop
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Sophronanthe hispida
Corolla white, salverform, tube 10-13mm long, pubescent within, per Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States by Robert K. Godfrey, Jean W. Wooten.
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Common Name:
Japanese Mazus
Upper lip short, 2-toothed; lower larger, 3-lobed with orange&white palate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Creeping Mazus, Miquel's mazus
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Mazus reptans
Plant stoloniferous, perennial; corolla 13-22 mm long, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Yellowseed False Pimpernel
GREATER THAN
PLANTS National Database
Lindernia dubia var. anagallidea
GREATER THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968)
Lindernia anagallidea
Flowers less than 3/8"; upper lip small & lower with 3 spreading lobes, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Flatrock Pimpernel, Riverbank Pimpernel, False Pimpernel
GREATER THAN
Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (1968)
Lindernia saxicola
Flowers are 2-lipped: the upper lip is 2-lobed, the bottom 3-lobed, per Guide to the Plants of Granite Outcrops.
Common Name:
Shade Mudflower
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Globifera umbrosa
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Common Name:
Allegheny Monkey-flower, Square-stemmed Monkey-flower
The throat has a raised palate shaded with yellow, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Winged Monkey-flower, Sharpwing Monkey Flower
Flowers solitary in leaf axils on stalks shorter than the calyx, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Moth Mullein
Flowers yellow or white; the 5 fertile stamens w woolly purple filaments, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Wand Mullein, Twiggy Mullein, Moth Mullein
The fuzzy stamens resemble a moth's antennae, hence one common name, per Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry.
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Common Name:
Woolly Mullein, Common Mullein, Flannel-plant, Velvet-plant
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Verbascum thapsus ssp. thapsus
Corolla yellow and 5-lobed, 15-25mm wide, within woolly 5-lobed sepals, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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Common Name:
Cuthbert’s Turtlehead
[Pollinator at work] Flowers strongly 4-ranked, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Mountain Turtlehead, Pink Turtlehead, Appalachian Turtlehead
SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT)
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Chelone lyoni
Flower's lower lip has a prominent yellow beard, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Purple Turtlehead
Flowers in a dense cluster, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Common Name:
White Turtlehead
Flowers white, often tinged with pink or purple, in a dense terminal spike, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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Common Name:
Small's Penstemon, Blue Ridge Beardtongue, Small's Beardtongue
Thyrse leafy, spreading, with leaf-like bracts, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Appalachian Beardtongue, Gray's Beardtongue
Lower bracts of inflorescence reduced, much smaller than the cauline leaves, per Weakley's Flora.
Common Name:
Pale Beardtongue, Eastern White Beardtongue
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Penstemon pallidus
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Common Name:
Downy Beardtongue, Sandhill Beardtongue, Southern Beardtongue, Southeastern Beardtongue
Peduncles strongly ascending, the inflorescence therefore narrow, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Foxglove Beardtongue, Tall White Beardtongue
The floral tube flares abruptly; the 4 functional anthers are dark brown, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
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Common Name:
Smooth Beardtongue, Eastern Beardtongue
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Penstemon penstemon
Panicle narrow; the bracts reduced, not leaflike, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Georgia Beardtongue, Grit Beardtongue
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Penstemon dissectus
Flower clusters open, branching, at the top of the stem, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Penstemon multiflorus
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Common Name:
Eastern Figwort, Carpenter's Square
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Scrophularia marilandica
Flowers less than 3/8", reddish-brown and strongly bilabiate, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Hare Figwort, American Figwort
Corolla dull reddish-brown, lacking a spur, upper lip not forming a hood, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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Common Name:
Oldfield Toadflax, Common Toadflax
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Linaria canadensis var. canadensis
Lower lip has a double-humped white palate & much exceeds the upper lip, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Common Name:
Texas Toadflax
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Linaria texana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Linaria canadensis var. texana
Flowers to twice as large as N. canadensis and much paler, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.
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Common Name:
Butter-and-eggs, Yellow Toadflax, Wild-snapdragon
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Linaria linaria
Flower has an orange "palate" that nearly closes the throat of the corolla, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
purple toadflax
Introduced, but can be found growing wild in parts of western North America, per Wikipedia.
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Common Name:
Culver's Root
The tallest plants in this family have some of the smallest flowers, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Thymeleaf Speedwell
The 3/8" oval leaves are replaced in the inflorescence by small bracts, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Common Purslane Speedwell
Pedicels ~1mm long or flowers subsessile. Inflorescence a distinct raceme, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Corn Speedwell, Wall Speedwell
Its bright blue flowers are nearly sessile and less than 1/8" wide, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Ivyleaf Speedwell
Flowers appear axillary and have 4 distinct sepals. Plant pubescent to pilose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Common Name:
Bird's-eye Speedwell
Flowers bright blue with darker stripes and a white center, on long pedicels, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Common Name:
Water Speedwell, Brook Pimpernel
Leaves clasping. Racemes with 20-65 flowers, per Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Common Speedwell, Gypsyweed, Heath Speedwell
GREATER THAN
PLANTS National Database
Veronica officinalis var. tournefortii
Flowers in spikelike racemes, with extremely short pedicels, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
Common Name:
Garden Speedwell, Longleaf Speedwell
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Veronica longifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Veronica beccabunga
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Common Name:
American Bluehearts, Prairie Bluehearts, Plains Bluehearts
Corolla lobes longer 5-8mm long (vs. those of B. floridana less than 5mm), per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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