Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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3653

Forb
Perennial

Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia?

Documented growing wild in - - -

Uncommon

Look for it in disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
Bisexual
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

FRUIT:
Summer

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Stachys palustris   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Stachys palustris   FAMILY Lamiaceae

GREATER THAN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
 Stachys palustris var. palustris

 

COMMON NAME:
 marsh hedgenettle

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image of Stachys palustris, marsh hedgenettle

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_stpa_001_lvd

        

image of Stachys palustris, marsh hedgenettle

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_stpa_004_lvd