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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trichostema brachiatum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

Trichostema brachiatum

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

Isanthus brachiatus

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

Isanthus brachiatus

 

COMMON NAME:
Glade Blue Curls, False Pennyroyal, Fluxweed


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image of Trichostema brachiatum, Glade Blue Curls, False Pennyroyal, Fluxweed

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_isbr3_001_lvd

        

image of Trichostema brachiatum, Glade Blue Curls, False Pennyroyal, Fluxweed

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_i_brachiatus_ccc

October    Catoosa County    GA

Chickamauga Cedar Glades

Leaves lanceolate to elliptic, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Trichostema brachiatum, Glade Blue Curls, False Pennyroyal, Fluxweed

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_isanthus_brachiatus

October    Catoosa County    GA

Chickamauga Cedar Glades

Calyx and corolla almost radially symmetrical. Stamens straight, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Trichostema brachiatum   FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

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

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3719

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Shale barrens, outcrops of calcareous or mafic rock, diabase barrens, calcareous dry prairies, disturbed rocky areas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have short petioles.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Light blue
Almost radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed corolla
4 stamens, straight, only slightly exserted
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in clusters of 1-3, in axils of upper leaves and bracts

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?

 

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