Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Stachys hyssopifolia
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Read more about Stachys at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys hyssopifolia
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Stachys hyssopifolia var. hyssopifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Stachys hyssopifolia
INCLUDING Stachys (Labitae) in Southeastern United States (Nelson, 1981)
Stachys hyssopifolia var. hyssopifolia
INCLUDING VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-20-002a:
Stachys hyssopifolia var. hyssopifolia FAMILY Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stachys hyssopifolia
COMMON NAME:
Hyssopleaf Hedgenettle
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_stat2_001_lvd
Stachys atlantica
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sthy3_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Stachys hyssopifolia
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys hyssopifolia
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Stachys hyssopifolia var. hyssopifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Stachys hyssopifolia
INCLUDING
Stachys (Labitae) in Southeastern United States (Nelson, 1981)
Stachys hyssopifolia var. hyssopifolia
INCLUDING
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-20-002a:
Stachys hyssopifolia var. hyssopifolia
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Stachys hyssopifolia
2953
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist soils of pine savannas, marshes, seasonally flooded sinkhole ponds, roadside ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer
Pink/Lavender
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower three-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
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) p379
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p081?
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p305
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