Cut-leaved Water Horehound

(Lycopus americanus)

 

Color Photograph: Midwestern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service, Midwest National Technical Center.

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

Cut-leaved Water Horehound (Lycopus americanus)

Identification: Flowers small, white, tubular, with free petal lobes of no particular unique structure. Flowers clustered in the leaf axils. Stem naked or finely downy. Leaves elongate, narrow, deeply cut with tooth-like lobes. Plant 1 to 2 feet in height.

Distribution: Throughout most of North America.

Habitat: Cut-leaved Horehound is found on a variety of wet soils, particularly in marshes and along lakes and ponds.

Flowering period: July to October.

Cut-leaved Water Horehound (Lycopus americanus)

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Bugleweed (Lycopus virginicus)

 

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