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Key to Hyptis

Lamiaceae

Hyptis

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Flowers borne in spikes (these sometimes variously branched and paniculiform, but never condensed into globose heads); leaves narrowed to a cuneate base or with a well-developed petiole and truncate; corolla primarily pink, purple, or white colored.
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Flowers borne in fascicles within the inflorescence (the inflorescence consisting of separated verticils)
 ⇒ Condea
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Flowers not borne in fascicles within the inflorescence (not consisting of separated verticils).
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Stems scabrous on the angles; calyx lacking tufts of white trichomes between the lobes
 ⇒ Cantinoa
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Stems pubescent, but not scabrous; calyx with conspicuous short tufts of white trichomes between the lobes
 ⇒ Mesosphaerum pectinatum
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Flowers borne in large, globose heads, 1.5-2.5 cm across, borne on peduncles 2-6 cm long; leaves narrowed to a narrowly cuneate, subpetiolar base; corolla primarily white-colored.
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Involucral bracts < 1 mm wide; peduncles usually < 1 cm long; [exotic, so far known only from FL]; [section Marrubiastrae]
 ⇒ Hyptis brevipes
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Involucral bracts > 1.5 mm wide; peduncles usually > 1 cm long; [native, widespread in the Coastal Plain of our area]; [section Hyptis].
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Stem internodes short-pubescent; leaves 3-8× as long as wide; [NC to FL to e. TX]
 ⇒ Hyptis alata var. alata
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Stem internodes glabrous or nearly so; leaves 8-20× as long as wide; [c. and s. peninsular FL]
 ⇒ Hyptis alata var. stenophylla