OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lycopus americanus   FAMILY Lamiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lycopus americanus   FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

Lycopus americanus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Lycopus americanus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Lycopus americanus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-31-005:

Lycopus americanus   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic revision of the genus Lycopus (Labiatae) (Henderson, 1962)

Lycopus americanus

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

Lycopus americanus

 

COMMON NAME:
American Bugleweed, Water Horehound


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image of Lycopus americanus, American Bugleweed, Water Horehound

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_lyam_001_lvd

        

image of Lycopus americanus, American Bugleweed, Water Horehound

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_lyam_006_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lycopus americanus   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lycopus americanus   FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Lycopus americanus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Lycopus americanus

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-31-005:
Lycopus americanus   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH A taxonomic revision of the genus Lycopus (Labiatae) (Henderson, 1962)
Lycopus americanus

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3332

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: marshes, bottomlands, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White
Radially symmetrical, or nearly so
5-lobed calyx
4-lobed corolla
2 exserted fertile stamens & sometimes 2 sterile stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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