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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Mazus pumilus
FAMILY
Mazaceae
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Read more about Japanese Mazus at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mazus pumilus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Mazus pumilus
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Mazus pumilus
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-08-001:
Mazus japonicus FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
COMMON NAME:
Japanese Mazus
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JK Marlow jkm120330_311
March Pickens County SC
Plant erect, pubescent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm120330_313
March Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120330_315
March Pickens County SC
Leaves mostly basal, opposite, spatulate; uppermost become alternate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm120330_315b
March Pickens County SC
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JK Marlow jkm150424_647
April Blount County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Calyx 5-parted, campanulate, lobes lanceolate, longer than the tube, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm140523_168
May Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Upper lip short, 2-toothed; lower larger, 3-lobed with orange&white palate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm190913_1401
September Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Inflorescence more or less 1-sided, glandular and eglandular short-hairy, per The European Garden Flora. Vol.6 Dicotyledons Longaniaceae to Compositae (Cullen et al., 2000).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_mazus_pumilus_2
September
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JK Marlow jkm201004_7604
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
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JK Marlow jkm211102_4714
November Pickens County SC
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Mazus pumilus
FAMILY
Mazaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Mazus pumilus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Mazus pumilus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Mazus pumilus
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-08-001:
Mazus japonicus
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
2699
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Lawns, sandy, rocky, or muddy shores and bars along lakes and rivers, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: east Asia
Uncommon (rare in Mountains)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & opposite
FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Blue/ Lavender
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-parted campanulate calyx
2-lipped corolla
4 included stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p409
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p329
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p241
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p286
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p160
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