Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Synandra hispidula
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
This is one of the more spectacular spring wildflowers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and farther west. Sadly, hardly anyone has ever seen it in NC. read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Synandra hispidula
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-15-001:
Synandra hispidula
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Synandra hispidula
COMMON NAME:
Guyandotte Beauty, Synandra
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_syhi_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Synandra hispidula
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Synandra hispidula
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-15-001:
Synandra hispidula
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Synandra hispidula
3335
Forb
Winter annual? Perennial?
Native to North Carolina
Documented growing wild in - NC -
Rare (a broad Appalachian endemic)
Look for it in moist, rich forests, 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
Petioles 2-10cm long
Margins crenate
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow to whitish
often streaked with purple
Bilaterally symmetrical
4-lobed narrowly campanulate calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper lip slightly hoodlike, lower lip three-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Inflorescence a raceme
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!