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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
 Gratiola neglecta   FAMILY Plantaginaceae   Go to FSUS key

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gratiola neglecta   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-07-005:

Gratiola neglecta   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Gratiola neglecta

 

COMMON NAME:
 Mud-hyssop, Mud Hedge-hyssop, Clammy Hedge-hyssop

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image of Gratiola neglecta, Mud-hyssop, Mud Hedge-hyssop, Clammy Hedge-hyssop

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_grne_003_lvd

        

image of Gratiola neglecta, Mud-hyssop, Mud Hedge-hyssop, Clammy Hedge-hyssop

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_gratiola_neglecta1

May    Moore County    NC

Leaves finely toothed, elliptic. Flowers 3/8" long, tube yellow, lobes white, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (10/20/20):
 Gratiola neglecta   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gratiola neglecta   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-07-005:
 Gratiola neglecta   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Gratiola neglecta

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3355

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Ditches, wet areas, bottomlands, wet cropped fields, brackish marshes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Creamy white, the throat yellow
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (apparently 4-lobed, but the upper two lobes are fused)
2 stamens
Superior ovary

Flowers solitary in leaf axils

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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