OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
 Scutellaria ovata var. rugosa   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria ovata ssp. rugosa   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
 Scutellaria arguta

INCLUDED WITHIN (INVALID NAME) PLANTS National Database
 Scutellaria ovata ssp. pseudoarguta

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
 Scutellaria ovata ssp. virginiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Systematic studies in Scutellaria sect. Mixtae (Labiatae) (Pittman, 1988)
 Scutellaria ovata ssp. rugosa var. rugosa

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-05-010?:
 Scutellaria ovata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
 Scutellaria arguta

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Scutellaria arguta

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Scutellaria ovata

 

COMMON NAME:
 Heartleaf Skullcap

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA (10/20/20):
 Scutellaria ovata var. rugosa   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria ovata ssp. rugosa   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
 Scutellaria arguta

INCLUDED WITHIN (INVALID NAME) PLANTS National Database
 Scutellaria ovata ssp. pseudoarguta

INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
 Scutellaria ovata ssp. virginiana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Systematic studies in Scutellaria sect. Mixtae (Labiatae) (Pittman, 1988)
 Scutellaria ovata ssp. rugosa var. rugosa

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-05-010?:
 Scutellaria ovata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

INCLUDING Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
 Scutellaria arguta

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Scutellaria arguta

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
 Scutellaria ovata

 

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4033

Forb
Perennial

Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in - - -

Look for it in shale barrens, other dry woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

map
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,

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...Dry

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Blue/ Violet
Bisexual
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

Inflorescence a raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall

 

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