Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Scutellaria pseudoserrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about falseteeth skullcap at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria pseudoserrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
COMMON NAME:
falseteeth skullcap
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JK Marlow jkm180504_450
May Meriwether-Talbot Counties GA
Sprewell Bluff WMA
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JK Marlow jkm180504_450b
May Meriwether-Talbot Counties GA
Sprewell Bluff WMA
Flowers in racemes, corollas 24-39mm long, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Scutellaria pseudoserrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria pseudoserrata
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
4262
Forb
Perennial
Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - -
Rare (an endemic)
Look for it in rich, rocky 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
Leaves have petioles.
FLOWER:
Spring
Whitish-blue
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:
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