Gratiola neglecta
American hedge-hyssop, clammy hedge-hyssop, common American hedge hyssop, gratiole négligée
ascending or erect, few- to much-branched, rarely simple, (4–)10–40 cm, glabrous or glandular-puberulent proximally, glandular-puberulent distally.
blade linear to narrowly elliptic, oblanceolate, or elliptic-obovate, rarely falcate, 10–65 × 3–11(–18) mm, margins with (1 or)2–5(–7) pairs of blunt to sharp teeth, apex acute, surfaces glabrate or glandular-puberulent.
slender, 8–35 mm, length (0.3–)0.4–0.9(–1.3) times bract, sparsely to densely glandular-puberulent;
bracteoles 2, 2.5–7 mm.
sepals distinct, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, 2.5–6 mm;
corolla 7–12 mm, tube yellow, yellowish white, or yellowish green, veins brownish violet, limb white, sometimes tinged lavender;
style 3–4 mm.
ovoid, 2.6–6 × 3–5 mm.
0.4–0.7 mm.
= 14, 16.
Gratiola neglecta
Gratiola neglecta exhibits the widest range and broadest ecological amplitude of the North American Gratiola species. Besides occurring in a variety of freshwater wetland communities, it sometimes is found in salt marshes and damp or wet agricultural fields.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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