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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Piloblephis rigida   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Piloblephis rigida

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of the Bahama Archipelago (Correll & Correll, 1982)

Satureja rigida

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Pycnothymus rigidus

 

COMMON NAME:
Florida Pennyroyal, Wild Pennyroyal


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image of Piloblephis rigida, Florida Pennyroyal, Wild Pennyroyal

Keith Bradley    kab_p_rigida_09016

April    Collier County    FL

Big Cypress National Preserve

Small flowers are in compact, conelike spikes at branch tips, per Everglades Wildflowers (Hammer, 2002, 2015).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Piloblephis rigida   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Piloblephis rigida

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of the Bahama Archipelago (Correll & Correll, 1982)
Satureja rigida

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Pycnothymus rigidus

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4112

Shrub
Short-lived perennial

Habitat: Scrubby pine flatwoods, longleaf pine sandhills, xeric oak scrub, often with Quercus myrtifolia, pine rocklands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Lavender to white with purple dots
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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