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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Blephilia ciliata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Read more about Diabase Woodmint at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Blephilia ciliata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Blephilia ciliata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-24-002:
Blephilia ciliata FAMILY Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Blephilia ciliata
COMMON NAME:
Diabase Woodmint, Horsemint, Downy Woodmint
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_blci_001_lvd
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Alan S. Weakley asw_236317312365447
May Granville County NC
Plants densely canescent; leaf apices obtuse, per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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Alan S. Weakley asw_6103297366463971
May Granville County NC
Live plants typically without minty odor (or tending towards oregano-like), per Weakley's Flora (2023).
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JK Marlow jkm180506_1993
May Crawford County GA
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_blephilia_ciliata_5
May
Leaves lanceolate to elliptic, often curving downward, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_b_ciliata_downy
June
Two to six dense whorls of flowers encircle square hairy stems at intervals, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Blephilia ciliata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Blephilia ciliata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Blephilia ciliata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-24-002:
Blephilia ciliata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Blephilia ciliata
211
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: woodlands, meadows, forests, prairies, usually in circumneutral soils (over diabase, limestone, shell, etc.), per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Lavender
(rarely white)
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 4-lobed corolla
2 exserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p022
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South (Wasowski & Wasowski, 1994, 2020) p140
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee (Hunter, 2002) p111
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p216
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p084
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p390
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p082
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p229
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p217
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p257
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p140
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