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Key to Hyptis

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1 Flowers borne in irregular verticillate spikes, sessile to pedunculate on peduncles 1-2 mm long; leaves either ovate to deltate, narrowed to a broadly cuneate to truncate base and well-developed petiole (4-6 cm long on larger leaves), or lanceolate and narrowed to a cuneate, subpetiolar base.
  2 Stem scabrous on the angles; corolla blue-purple; leaves ovate to deltate, narrowed to a broadly cuneate to truncate base and well-developed petiole (4-6 cm long on larger leaves)
  2 Stem glabrous or pubescent; corolla white; leaves lanceolate, narrowed to a cuneate, subpetiolar base
1 Flowers borne in large, globose heads, 1.5-2.5 cm across, borne on peduncles 2-6 cm long; leaves lanceolate, narrowed to a narrowly cuneate, subpetiolar base.
    3 Involucral bracts < 1 mm wide; peduncles usually < 1 cm long; [exotic, so far known only from FL]; [section Marrubiastrae]
    3 Involucral bracts > 1.5 mm wide; peduncles usually > 1 cm long; [native, widespread in the Coastal Plain of our area]; [section Hyptis]
      4 Stem internodes short-pubescent; leaves 3-8× as long as wide; [NC to FL to e. TX]
      4 Stem internodes glabrous or nearly so; leaves 8-20× as long as wide; [c. and s. peninsular FL]
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