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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Gratiola neglecta
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Mud-hyssop at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gratiola neglecta
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Gratiola neglecta
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17 (2019)
Gratiola neglecta
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Gratiola neglecta
INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Gratiola neglecta
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-07-005:
Gratiola neglecta FAMILY Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Gratiola neglecta
COMMON NAME:
Mud-hyssop, Mud Hedge-hyssop, Clammy Hedge-hyssop
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_grne_003_lvd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_gratiola_neglecta1
May Moore County NC
Leaves finely toothed, elliptic. Flowers 3/8" long, tube yellow, lobes white, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Gratiola neglecta
FAMILY
Plantaginaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Gratiola neglecta
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Gratiola neglecta
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 17
Gratiola neglecta
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Gratiola neglecta
INCLUDED WITHIN
Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Gratiola neglecta
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-07-005:
Gratiola neglecta
FAMILY
Scrophulariaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Gratiola neglecta
3355
Forb
Annual
Habitat: Ditches, wet areas, bottomlands, wet cropped fields, brackish marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in NC Mountains & GA Piedmont) (rare in GA Coastal Plain)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves sessile
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Creamy white, the throat yellow
Pedicels filiform, ≥ 10mm long
5 sepals
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla (apparently 4-lobed, but the upper two lobes are fused)
2 fertile stamens
Superior ovary
Flowers solitary in axils of leafy bracts
FRUIT:
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) p078
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p089
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p240
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p284
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p159
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p244
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