Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Scutellaria montana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria montana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Scutellaria serrata var. montana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scutellaria montana
COMMON NAME:
Large-flowered Skullcap
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_montansloppyfloyd6s
May Chattooga County GA
Sloppy Floyd State Park
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_scutellaria_montana_4
May
Lower lip pale blue w 2 white streaks edged by dark blue lines and splotches, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_scutellaria_montana_s
May
Flowers 1" or more, with an erect white tube & pale blue hood-like upper lip, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Scutellaria montana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria montana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Scutellaria serrata var. montana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scutellaria montana
2924
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Mesic hardwood (or hardwood-shortleaf pine) forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Whitish-blue
(lower lip with 2 white streaks bordered by dark blue lines and splotches)
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lobed calyx with a distinct protuberance on the upper surface
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower plate-like
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p345
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p080
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p229
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p272
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