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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Scutellaria lateriflora
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Read more about Mad-dog Skullcap at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria lateriflora var. lateriflora
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-05-003:
Scutellaria lateriflora FAMILY Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scutellaria lateriflora
COMMON NAME:
Mad-dog Skullcap, Tall Blue Skullcap
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USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969 mpa_page_233
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_s_lateriflora_2
July Iredell County NC
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JK Marlow jkm180814_3820
August McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Racemes terminal or terminating axillary leafy branches, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm180814_3825
August McCormick County SC
Parks Mill
Leaves with a rounded base and pointed tip, toothed, petioled, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm230809_4928
August Greenville County SC
Core Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm230809_4931
August Greenville County SC
Core Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
The smallest flowers of Scutellaria in the southern mtns, about 1/4" long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm230809_4934
August Greenville County SC
Core Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
Stems 4-angled, light green to pale reddish-green, smooth to minutely furry on the angles, per Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019).
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JK Marlow jkm230809_4935
August Greenville County SC
Core Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
The field mark of Skullcaps is a small but conspicuous protuberance on the calyx upper lip, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm230809_4938
August Greenville County SC
Core Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_s_lateriflora_1
August Iredell County NC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Scutellaria lateriflora
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria lateriflora var. lateriflora
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-05-003:
Scutellaria lateriflora
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scutellaria lateriflora
2292
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: alluvial forests, bogs, seeps, marshes, shores, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizome slender
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue/ Violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lobed calyx with a distinct protuberance on the upper surface
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower plate-like
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in one-sided axillary racemes
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p253
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses (Miller & Miller, 2005) p166
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p408
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p126
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p215
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p229
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p271
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p149
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p213
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