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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Trichostema setaceum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Narrowleaf Blue Curls at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trichostema setaceum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Trichostema setaceum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-01-001:
Trichostema setaceum FAMILY Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Trichostema dichotomum var. lineare
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Trichostema lineare
COMMON NAME:
Narrowleaf Blue Curls
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_trli5_001_lvd
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Steve Marlow snm9200034PurpleCURLS2sel
September Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm201002_7473
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm201002_7486
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm201002_7488
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Habitat.
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JK Marlow jkm201002_7493
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Mericarps brownish to olive or blackish, dull, obovoid, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm201002_7495
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
The one-nerved linear leaves are at least 6 times longer than wide, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm201002_7496
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Calyx 2-lipped, the lower lip's three teeth longer than the upper lip's two, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm201002_7514
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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Steve Marlow snm20060bluecurls5sel
October Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
Corolla 5-lobed, lowest lobe lip-like, stamens curl downward almost to the lip, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Tim Spira tpstsetaceum
Month Unknown
Leaves narrow, less than 1/4" (5mm) wide, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
COMPARE
leaves of Blue Curls species
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Trichostema setaceum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trichostema setaceum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Trichostema setaceum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-01-001:
Trichostema setaceum
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Trichostema dichotomum var. lineare
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Trichostema lineare
1918
Forb
Annual/Weak perennial
Habitat: Thin soils around rock outcrops, especially granite flatrocks, dry sandy soils of the Coastal Plain, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Uncommon (rare in NC)
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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
Blue/Violet
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
5-lobed corolla
4 exserted stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p076
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p405
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p079
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p245
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p233
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p275
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p146
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p339