An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . r Calamint. Basil-thyme. Fi^ Melissa Nepeta L. Sp. PI. 593. Nepeta Link & HofFmansg. Fl. Port. 1:14. Nepeta Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 515. Nepeta Scheele, Flora 26: 577. 1843. Perennial by a woody root and short rootstocks,villous or pubescent; stem rather stout, at lengthmuch branched, the branches nearly straight, ascend-ing. Leaves broad
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . r Calamint. Basil-thyme. Fi^ Melissa Nepeta L. Sp. PI. 593. Nepeta Link & HofFmansg. Fl. Port. 1:14. Nepeta Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 515. Nepeta Scheele, Flora 26: 577. 1843. Perennial by a woody root and short rootstocks,villous or pubescent; stem rather stout, at lengthmuch branched, the branches nearly straight, ascend-ing. Leaves broadly ovate, petioled, obtuse or acute,crenulate with few low teeth, rounded or narrowedat the base, the lower i-i long, the upper muchsmaller and bract-like; flowers few in the numerousloose peduncled axillary cymes, forming an almostnaked elongated thyrsus; bracts very small, linear;calyx not gibbous, villous in the throat, about I2long, the teeth of its lower lip twice as long as thoseof the upper; corolla light purple 01 almost white,about 4 long. In fields and waste places, Maryland to South Caro-lina, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky and Arkansas. Ber-muda. Naturalized from Europe. Native also of
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