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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Gratiola viscidula
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
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Read more about Viscid Hedge-hyssop at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gratiola viscidula
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Gratiola viscidula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)
Gratiola viscidula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Gratiola viscidula
SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Gratiola viscidula
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-07-004:
Gratiola viscidula FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Gratiola viscidula
COMMON NAME:
Viscid Hedge-hyssop, Sticky Hedge-hyssop, Short's Hedge-hyssop
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_grvi4_001_lvd
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
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Gratiola viscidula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Gratiola viscidula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Gratiola viscidula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Gratiola viscidula
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-07-004:
Gratiola viscidula
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Gratiola viscidula
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)
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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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p079
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p159
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p180
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