OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Gratiola ramosa   FAMILY Plantaginaceae   Go to FSUS key

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gratiola ramosa   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

Gratiola ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)

Gratiola ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Gratiola ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Gratiola ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-07-002:

Gratiola ramosa   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

Gratiola ramosa

 

COMMON NAME:
 Branched Hedge-hyssop

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Gratiola ramosa   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gratiola ramosa   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
 Gratiola ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
 Gratiola ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
 Gratiola ramosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-07-002:
 Gratiola ramosa   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

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

 

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4691

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Pondcypress savannas, wet pine savannas, pineland ponds and Carolina bays, marshes, pond margins, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in GA & SC (rare in NC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizome slender

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White, the throat lined with maroon
Pedicel longer than the subtending leaf
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (apparently 4-lobed, but the upper two lobes are fused)
2 fertile stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers solitary in axils of leafy bracts

FRUIT:
Capsule

 

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