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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Leonurus cardiaca
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Read more about Motherwort at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Leonurus cardiaca ssp. cardiaca
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-16-001:
Leonurus cardiaca
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Leonurus cardiaca
COMMON NAME:
Motherwort, Lion's-tail
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Leonurus cardiaca
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Leonurus cardiaca ssp. cardiaca
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-16-001:
Leonurus cardiaca
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Leonurus cardiaca
3330
Forb
Perennial
Non-native: central Asia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon in NC Mountains & Piedmont, rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
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
Leaves palmately 3-5 lobed
Petioles 1-5cm long
Margins coarsely serrate
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Purplish-red
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx, the lobes spine-tipped
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower three-lobed
4 exserted stamens
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
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