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 Leaves Frankie Coburn @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant Frankie Coburn @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Branches occasionally; stems are light green to pale reddish-green, 4-angled, hairless or sparsely hairy, tendency to sprawl; rhizomes slender; stems smooth or hairs sparse; generally not glandular; 6 inch flower stems of 6 to 7 pairs of flowers.
Identification notes: Slender spreading rhizomes; may have sparse hairs or no hairs; leaves triangular to lance-shaped; flowers 2–lipped, upper lip dome-like, lower lips white-patched, flowers blue to purplish-blue, in spike-like elongated terminal or axillary clusters.
Height:
Up to 32 inches tall
Habitat Description: Moist bottomlands, marshes, wet meadows. Low, wet borders of lakes, ponds, and swamps, in low wet woods, and dredged ditches, and sometimes in roadside ditches.
Plant Communities:
Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 3700 - 6200 feet
Color:
Blue to purplish-blue, white
Shape:
Regular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Jul - Aug
Description:
Small, tubular, 2-lipped, snapdragon-like, paired flowers (to 1/3 inch) bloom solitary or in 6 inch long spike-like clusters, flower with 2 lips, upper lip helmet-like, lower often white; flower tube 1/4 inch long; 4 stamens; sepals 1/16 inch long.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Round or oval
Leaf Margin:
Toothed
Leaf Attachment:
Opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Leaf blades 1 to 2-1/2 inches long; rounded, squared-off at base; smooth above, paler, often hairy on veins below, hairs flattened; leaf stems from 1/4 to 1 inch long; there are 2 leaves per node along the stem; upper leaf surface has conspicuous veins.
Fruit Color: Brown
Fruit Type: Nutlet
Fruit Notes: Tuberculate (with small rounded projections) or papillose (covered with raised dots), brown.
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