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Plantaginaceae
Gratiola

not marked as a favorite taxon Gratiola viscidula Pennell. Common name: Viscid Hedge-hyssop, Short’s Hedge-hyssop. Phenology: May-Nov. Habitat: Bogs, marshes, beaver ponds, wet areas, ditches, margins of Coastal Plain ponds. Distribution: DE, MD and e. VA, south to c. SC and ne. GA; disjunct in s. OH, WV, e. TN, MO, and ne. FL

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Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Taxonomy Comments: Spooner (1984) studied infraspecific taxa recognized in G. viscidula and determined that they did not warrant recognition.

Synonymy ⓘ: = C, F, Fl6, FNA17, GW2, K4, Mo3, RAB, S, Tat, Tn, Va, W, WH3; = Gratiola viscida Schwein.; > Gratiola viscidula Pennell var. "shortii" — G; > Gratiola viscidula Pennell var. "viscidula" — G; > Gratiola viscidula Pennell ssp. shortii Pennell — Pennell (1935); > Gratiola viscidula Pennell ssp. typica Pennell — Pennell (1935). Basionym: Gratiola viscidula Pennell 1919 "Urbasionym:" Gratiola viscida Schwein. 1807

Links to other floras: = Gratiola viscidula - FNA17

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL
  • Midwest: OBL

Heliophily ⓘ: 8

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect to sprawling perennial of bogs, marshes, ditches, margins of Coastal Plain ponds and other wet areas.

Stems: Stems somewhat succulent, unbranched, hairy or glandular-hairy.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile and somewhat clasping, oval to oblong-lance-shaped, with variously toothed margins, hairy (sometimes glandular).

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary on short, glandular stalks from leaf axils; white to cream or pink-tinged and marked on the inside with purple lines and a yellow center; about ½ in. long; bilaterally symmetric; with a tubular corolla opening to 4 unequal, spreading, wavy-margined lobes (lowest one largest) and a calyx consisting of 5 elliptic to lance-shaped sepals. There are 2 bractlets below the calyx.

Fruits: Fruit a tiny, round capsule.

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Height: 4-20 in.

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description: Erect to sprawling perennial of bogs, marshes, ditches, margins of Coastal Plain ponds and other wet areas.

stems: Stems somewhat succulent, unbranched, hairy or glandular-hairy.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile and somewhat clasping, oval to oblong-lance-shaped, with variously toothed margins, hairy (sometimes glandular).

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary on short, glandular stalks from leaf axils; white to cream or pink-tinged and marked on the inside with purple lines and a yellow center; about ½ in. long; bilaterally symmetric; with a tubular corolla opening to 4 unequal, spreading, wavy-margined lobes (lowest one largest) and a calyx consisting of 5 elliptic to lance-shaped sepals. There are 2 bractlets below the calyx.

fruits: Fruit a tiny, round capsule.

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