OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Scutellaria serrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria serrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Scutellaria serrata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-05-007:

Scutellaria serrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Scutellaria serrata var. serrata

SYNONYMOUS WITH The American species of Scutellaria (Epling, 1942)

Scutellaria serrata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Scutellaria serrata

 

COMMON NAME:
Showy Skullcap, Serrate Skullcap


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image of Scutellaria serrata, Showy Skullcap, Serrate Skullcap

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_scse5_001_lvd

        

image of Scutellaria serrata, Showy Skullcap, Serrate Skullcap

JK Marlow    jkm0305t_04

May    Haywood County    NC

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Stem normally smooth below flowers. Lvs essentially smooth on both sides, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Scutellaria serrata, Showy Skullcap, Serrate Skullcap

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_scutellaria_serrata

June        

Racemes normally solitary, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Scutellaria serrata, Showy Skullcap, Serrate Skullcap

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_scutellaria_serrata_2

June        

The helmet-shaped upper lip covers the 4 stamens, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Scutellaria serrata, Showy Skullcap, Serrate Skullcap

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_scutellaria_serrata2

June        

With flowers 1" or more in length, this species is well named, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Scutellaria serrata, Showy Skullcap, Serrate Skullcap

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_scutellaria_serrata3

June        

2-4" ovate toothed leaves with bases that narrow abruptly to long petioles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Scutellaria serrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Scutellaria serrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Scutellaria serrata

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-05-007:
Scutellaria serrata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Scutellaria serrata var. serrata

SYNONYMOUS WITH The American species of Scutellaria (Epling, 1942)
Scutellaria serrata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Scutellaria serrata

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1346

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Rich forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in NC, rare in GA & SC

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Whitish-blue
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
Bisexual

Inflorescence a raceme

FRUIT:
Summer
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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