OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Gratiola viscidula   FAMILY Plantaginaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gratiola viscidula   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-07-004:

Gratiola viscidula   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Viscid Hedge-hyssop, Sticky Hedge-hyssop, Short's Hedge-hyssop

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Gratiola viscidula   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gratiola viscidula   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-07-004:
 Gratiola viscidula   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3356

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: bogs, marshes, beaver ponds, wet areas, ditches, margins of Coastal Plain ponds, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Carolina Piedmont & Carolina Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
White or pale lavender
Pedicels filiform, ≥ 10mm long
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (apparently 4-lobed, but the upper two lobes are fused)
2 fertile stamens
Superior ovary

Flowers solitary in axils of leafy bracts

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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