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Boggs Lake hedge-hyssop

round-fruit hedge-hyssop, Virginia hedge-hyssop

Habit Annuals. Annuals.
Stems

ascending to erect, simple or few-branched, 2–12 cm, glabrous proximally, glabrous or glandular-puberulent distally.

ascending to erect, simple or few-branched, 4–50 cm, glabrous or glabrate proximally, glabrous or glandular-puberulent distally.

Leaves

blade linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, elliptic, or oblong, 4–8(–20) × 1.5–3.5 mm, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded, surfaces glabrous.

blade lanceolate to elliptic or oblong-obovate, 15–70 × 5–25 mm, margins entire or with 1–4 pairs of blunt or sharp teeth distally, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces glabrous.

Pedicels

slender, 2–14(–28) mm, length 0.9–2.3 times bract, sparsely to densely glandular-puberulent;

bracteoles 0.

stout, 1–12 mm, length 0.1–0.3 times bract, glabrous or sparsely glandular-puberulent;

bracteoles 2, 2–6 mm.

Flowers

sepals connate proximally, calyx distinctly bilaterally symmetric, lobes elliptic-oblanceolate, 3.5–6 mm;

corolla 4–7.5(–9) mm, tube yellow or greenish yellow, veins purple, limb white abaxially, greenish yellow adaxially;

style 1.5–2 mm.

sepals distinct, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or oblong, 4–7 mm;

corolla 8–15 mm, tube greenish white to greenish yellow or yellow, veins purple or brownish purple, limb white, sometimes tinged lavender;

style 2–4 mm.

Capsules

subglobular to ovoid, 3.5–4.7 × 3–4.5 mm.

subglobular, (3–)4–9 × 4–8 mm.

Seeds

0.5–0.7 mm.

0.7–0.8 mm.

2n

= 16.

Gratiola heterosepala

Gratiola virginiana

Phenology Flowering Apr–Sep. Flowering Mar–Oct.
Habitat Shallow water and exposed mud of vernal pools, wet meadows, lake margins. Stream banks, swamps, floodplain pools and ponds, swamps.
Elevation 0–1900 m. (0–6200 ft.) 0–500 m. (0–1600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
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AL; AR; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NJ; OH; OK; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV [Introduced in Mexico (Veracruz)]
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Discussion

Some plants from tidal wetlands in Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia are purportedly relatively shorter in stature and bear shorter pedicels and smaller capsules than most plants of Gratiola virginiana. They have been treated as var. aestuariorum; the distinctness of var. aestuariorum has not been assessed in the context of morphological variation across the range of G. virginiana.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 17, p. 267. FNA vol. 17, p. 269.
Parent taxa Plantaginaceae > Gratiola Plantaginaceae > Gratiola
Sibling taxa
G. amphiantha, G. brevifolia, G. ebracteata, G. floridana, G. graniticola, G. lutea, G. neglecta, G. quartermaniae, G. ramosa, G. torreyi, G. virginiana, G. viscidula
G. amphiantha, G. brevifolia, G. ebracteata, G. floridana, G. graniticola, G. heterosepala, G. lutea, G. neglecta, G. quartermaniae, G. ramosa, G. torreyi, G. viscidula
Synonyms G. virginiana var. aestuariorum
Name authority H. Mason & Bacigalupi: Madroño 12: 150, figs. 1–8. (1954) Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 17; 2: 1200. (1753)
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