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

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



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys tenuifolia   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Stachys tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH A new hedge-nettle (Stachys: Lamiaceae) from the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and Coastal Plain (Fleming, Nelson, & Townsend; 2011)

Stachys tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)

Stachys tenuifolia var. tenuifolia

INCLUDING Stachys (Labitae) in Southeastern United States (Nelson, 1981)

Stachys tenuifolia var. perlonga

INCLUDING Stachys (Labitae) in Southeastern United States (Nelson, 1981)

Stachys tenuifolia var. tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-20-006:

Stachys tenuifolia   FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

Stachys tenuifolia

 

COMMON NAME:
Smooth Hedgenettle


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image of Stachys tenuifolia, Smooth Hedgenettle

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_stte_001_lvd

        

image of Stachys tenuifolia, Smooth Hedgenettle

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_stte_004_lvd

        

image of Stachys tenuifolia, Smooth Hedgenettle

John B. Nelson    jbn_3630145461_2a4b73b562

June        

Bracts of the inflorescence inconspicuous, rapidly reduced upward, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Stachys tenuifolia, Smooth Hedgenettle

John B. Nelson    jbn3630145461_2a4b73b562b

June        

Of North American Stachys, the only one w consistently curling calyx lobes. — John Nelson

 

 

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys tenuifolia   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Stachys tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH A new hedge-nettle (Stachys: Lamiaceae) from the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and Coastal Plain (Fleming, Nelson, & Townsend; 2011)
Stachys tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge (Wofford, 1989)
Stachys tenuifolia var. tenuifolia

INCLUDING Stachys (Labitae) in Southeastern United States (Nelson, 1981)
Stachys tenuifolia var. perlonga

INCLUDING Stachys (Labitae) in Southeastern United States (Nelson, 1981)
Stachys tenuifolia var. tenuifolia

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-20-006:
Stachys tenuifolia   FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2455

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Wooded alluvial river bottoms, swamp forests, and roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
Pink/Lavender
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower three-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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