OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Salvia lyrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salvia lyrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-22-001:

Salvia lyrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
Lyreleaf Sage, Cancer-weed


 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Salvia lyrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Salvia lyrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-22-001:
Salvia lyrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1307

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: hammocks, lawns, roadsides, dry to mesic woodlands and forests, floodplains, calcareous barrens, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite

FLOWER:
Winter/SpringFall
Blue/Violet (rarely white)
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped 5-toothed calyx
2-lipped tubular corolla
2 fertile exserted stamens & possibly some sterile stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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