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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):
Hedeoma pulegioides   FAMILY Lamiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hedeoma pulegioides   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-25-001:

Hedeoma pulegioides   FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

Hedeoma pulegioides

 

COMMON NAME:
American Pennyroyal


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image of Hedeoma pulegioides, American Pennyroyal

USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_139

        

image of Hedeoma pulegioides, American Pennyroyal

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_hepu_001_lvd

        

image of Hedeoma pulegioides, American Pennyroyal

Terry Holdsclaw    tdh_hedeoma_pulegioides

September    Catawba County    NC

A strongly aromatic, usually branched plant. Flowers in clusters in lf axils, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hedeoma pulegioides   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-25-001:
Hedeoma pulegioides   FAMILY Lamiaceae

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

 

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638

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Dry soils of woodlands, roadbanks, woods-roads, especially common in shaly parts of the mountains, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon (rare in GA Mountains & Carolina Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
White/ Bluish
Bilaterally symmetrical
2-lipped calyx
2-lipped 4-lobed corolla
2 exserted fertile stamens & often 2 sterile stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in axillary clusters

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown/Black
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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