Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Macbridea caroliniana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
"One of relatively few conspicuously flowering herbs that occupy bottomland hardwood forests." Read more from the South Carolina Plant Conservation Alliance.
Read more about Carolina Birds-in-a-nest at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Macbridea caroliniana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-14-001:
Macbridea caroliniana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Carolina Birds-in-a-nest, Carolina Macbridea, Carolina Bogmint
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Jerry Bright jeb_mg_1458
August Marion County SC
Woodbury Wildlife Management Area
Corolla pink or lavender, striped with a deeper shade, or white, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Jerry Bright jeb_mg_1459
August Marion County SC
Woodbury Wildlife Management Area
Upper lip hood-like, entire or notched. Lower lip 3-lobed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Jerry Bright jeb_mg_1463
August Marion County SC
Woodbury Wildlife Management Area
Leaves 6-13cm long, 1.5-4cm wide, lower petiolate, upper sessile.
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Jerry Bright jeb_mg_1465
August Marion County SC
Woodbury Wildlife Management Area
Overlapping nestlike bracts subtending the flowers give it its common name, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Macbridea caroliniana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Macbridea caroliniana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-14-001:
Macbridea caroliniana
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
3033
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Rare
Look for it in swamp forests, esp in sphagnous seepage areas away from direct flooding, savanna edges, ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pink/Lavender/or White
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
3-lobed narrowly campanulate calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower three-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Light brown
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p062
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p294
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p125
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p258