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Gratiola neglecta Torrey. Common name: Mud-hyssop, Clammy Hedge-hyssop. Phenology: Mar-Oct. Habitat: Ditches, wet areas, bottomlands, wet cropped fields, brackish marshes. Distribution: QC and ME west to BC, south to c. GA, e. TX, AZ, and CA.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = FNA17, GrPl, Il, K4, Mi, Mo3, NE, NY, Tat, Tn, Va, Estes & Small (2007); < Gratiola neglecta Torr. — C, G, GW2, NcTx, Pa, RAB, S, Tx, W, WV, Pennell (1935); > Gratiola neglecta Torr. var. glaberrima Fernald — F; >< Gratiola neglecta Torr. var. neglecta — F. Basionym: Gratiola neglecta Torr. 1819

Links to other floras: = Gratiola neglecta - FNA17

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Great Plains: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Midwest: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Northcentral & Northeast: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily ⓘ: 6

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect annual of bottomlands, ditches, pool margins, upland depression ponds and other wet areas.

Stems: Stems short-branched above, sometimes branched below, sometimes succulent, sticky-hairy.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, oblong to oblong-lance-shaped or oblong-oval, 1/2-2 in. long, toothed or entire, hairy when emerging but later smooth.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary on long stalks from leaf axils, with a pair of small leafy bracts at the flower base; cream to white but yellow or green within; about â…“ in long; bilaterally symmetric; with the tubular corolla opening to several spreading, short, rounded lobes. The calyx is tubular but shorter, with 5 lobes.

Fruits: Fruit an oval capsule with pointed tip.

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Height: 4-15 in.

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description: Erect annual of bottomlands, ditches, pool margins, upland depression ponds and other wet areas.

stems: Stems short-branched above, sometimes branched below, sometimes succulent, sticky-hairy.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile, oblong to oblong-lance-shaped or oblong-oval, 1/2-2 in. long, toothed or entire, hairy when emerging but later smooth.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary on long stalks from leaf axils, with a pair of small leafy bracts at the flower base; cream to white but yellow or green within; about â…“ in long; bilaterally symmetric; with the tubular corolla opening to several spreading, short, rounded lobes. The calyx is tubular but shorter, with 5 lobes.

fruits: Fruit an oval capsule with pointed tip.

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