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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pycnanthemum flexuosum   FAMILY Lamiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pycnanthemum flexuosum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-28-003:

Pycnanthemum flexuosum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Pycnanthemum hyssopifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH A study of Pycnanthemum (Labiatae) (Grant & Epling, 1943)

Pycnanthemum hyssopifolium

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Koellia hugeri

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Koellia hyssopifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Savanna Mountain-mint, Savanna Mint


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image of Pycnanthemum flexuosum, Savanna Mountain-mint, Savanna Mint

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_kohy2_001_lvd

        

image of Pycnanthemum flexuosum, Savanna Mountain-mint, Savanna Mint

JK Marlow    jkm120815_739

August    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

The relatively large headlike flower clusters (cymules) may be over 1" wide, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Pycnanthemum flexuosum, Savanna Mountain-mint, Savanna Mint

JK Marlow    jkm120815_744

August    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Leaves elliptic to lance-shaped, up to about 2" long and 3/4" wide, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Pycnanthemum flexuosum, Savanna Mountain-mint, Savanna Mint

JK Marlow    jkm120815_748

August    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Tiny, tubular, 2-lipped flowers protrude from a whitish 5-parted calyx, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).

image of Pycnanthemum flexuosum, Savanna Mountain-mint, Savanna Mint

JK Marlow    jkm120815_755

August    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

Erect perennial herb 16-44" tall, per Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pycnanthemum flexuosum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Pycnanthemum flexuosum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-28-003:
Pycnanthemum flexuosum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Pycnanthemum hyssopifolium

SYNONYMOUS WITH A study of Pycnanthemum (Labiatae) (Grant & Epling, 1943)
Pycnanthemum hyssopifolium

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Koellia hugeri

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Koellia hyssopifolia

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2310

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist to wet pine savannas, pine flatwoods, pocosin margins, mountain bogs, seepage areas on low elevation granite domes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere)

map
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White/Lavender
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-toothed calyx
2-lipped 4-lobed corolla
4 stamens, usually exserted
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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