Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lycopus americanus
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lycopus americanus
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lycopus americanus
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Lycopus americanus
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Lycopus americanus
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-31-005:
Lycopus americanus FAMILY Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic revision of the genus Lycopus (Labiatae) (Henderson, 1962)
Lycopus americanus
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lycopus americanus
COMMON NAME:
American Bugleweed, Water Horehound
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_lyam_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_lyam_006_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lycopus americanus
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lycopus americanus
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lycopus americanus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Lycopus americanus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Lycopus americanus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-31-005:
Lycopus americanus
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A taxonomic revision of the genus Lycopus (Labiatae) (Henderson, 1962)
Lycopus americanus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lycopus americanus
3332
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: marshes, bottomlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
Radially symmetrical, or nearly so
5-lobed calyx
4-lobed corolla
2 exserted fertile stamens & sometimes 2 sterile stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p195
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p083
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p221
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p262
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p145
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