False Dragonhead

(Physostegia virginiana)

 

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.

 

False Dragonhead (Physostegia virginiana)

Identification: Flowers large, pink, light toward the base and ventral side of the corolla. When a flower is pushed to the right or left, they stay in the new position. Upper petal lobe concave and hoodlike. Lower petal lobe bilobed. Stamens not protruding from the mouth of the corolla. Flowers in an elongate apical spike. Stem square. Leaves elongate, narrow, with the petiole short to absent. Outer leaf margin toothed. Plant 1 to 4 feet in height.

Distribution: Throughout eastern and central North America.

Habitat: False Dragonhead is found along Riverbanks and in thickets.

Flowering period: June to September.-

False Dragonhead (Physostegia virginiana)

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The elongate spikes of large pink and white flowers in combination with the thin, elongate leaves easily identify this species.

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