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

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys crenata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH A new hedge-nettle (Stachys: Lamiaceae) from the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and Coastal Plain (Fleming, Nelson, & Townsend; 2011)

Stachys agraria

 

COMMON NAME:
Mouse's-ear, Shade Betony


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image of Stachys agraria, Mouse's-ear, Shade Betony

Keith Bradley    kab_stachys_agraria_4864

April    Richland County    SC

Congaree National Park

image of Stachys agraria, Mouse's-ear, Shade Betony

Keith Bradley    kab_stachys_agraria_4872

April    Richland County    SC

Congaree National Park

Corolla 4-6mm long (barely or not exceeding calyx), per Weakley's Flora (2015).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys crenata   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH A new hedge-nettle (Stachys: Lamiaceae) from the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and Coastal Plain (Fleming, Nelson, & Townsend; 2011)
Stachys agraria

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3657

Forb
Annual

Habitat: calcareous hammocks, ditches, damp forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to South Carolina & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Spring
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower three-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:

 

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