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Hairy Wood Mint (Blephilia hirsuta) |
Color Photograph: © by and courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden
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Blephilia ciliata Downy Wood Mint is similar, but the stem is only lightly hairy. The petioles of the middle leaves are short, not long and narrow. Hairy Wood Mint (Blephilia hirsuta) Identification: Flowers pink to violet-blue. Lower petal lobe thin and straplike, bordered on either side by broad, ovate lobes. Top petal lobe triangular. Interior of flower spotted with dark red. Flowers in apical clusters, arranged in whorls separated by bands of fringed, prickly appearing, bracts. Stem square, hairy. Leaves blade-shaped, petioles of middle leaves elongate, thin. Plant 1 to 3 feet in height. Distribution: Minnesota in the west to Quebec in the east, southward to Georgia and Arkansas. Habitat: Found in wet woods and other wet shady places. Flowering period: May to September. |
Hairy Wood Mint (Blephilia hirsuta)
Similar Species: The uniquely shaped flowers and the arrangement of bands of flowers separated by bands of prickly apparing bracts will identify most species of Blephilia. Downy Wood Mint (Blephilia ciliata)
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