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 . II. I. Hedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers. American Pennyroyal. Fig. 3647. Melissa pulegioides L. Sp. PI. 593. pulegioides L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 30. pulegioides Pers. Syn. 2: 131. 1807. Annual; stem very slender, erect, much branched,finely soft-pubescent, 6-i8 high, the branches ascend-ing. Leaves ovate to obovate-oblong, petioled, sparinglyserrate, mostly ob
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 . II. I. Hedeoma pulegioides (L.) Pers. American Pennyroyal. Fig. 3647. Melissa pulegioides L. Sp. PI. 593. pulegioides L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 30. pulegioides Pers. Syn. 2: 131. 1807. Annual; stem very slender, erect, much branched,finely soft-pubescent, 6-i8 high, the branches ascend-ing. Leaves ovate to obovate-oblong, petioled, sparinglyserrate, mostly obtuse at the apex and narrowed at thebase, glabrous, or sparingly pubescent, thin, i-ii long,2-8 wide, the upper smaller; clusters few-flowered,axillary, rather loose; pedicels pubescent, shorter thanor equalling the calyx; calyx pubescent, gibbous, oblong-ovoid in fruit, its 3 upper teeth triangular, acute, notexceeding the 2 subulate hispid lower ones; corollabluish-purple, about 3 long; rudimentary stamensmanifest, capitate at the summit, or rarely anther-bearing. In dry fields, Cape Breton Island to Ontario and Minne-sota, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas and Nebraska. Alsocalled tick-weed and squaw-mint. 2. Hedeoma hispida Pursh. Rough Pennyroyal. Fig. 3648. Hedeoma hispida Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. hirta Nutt. Gen. i: 16. 1818. 1814. Annual; stem erect, branched, slender, 3-8 high,pubescent, the branches erect-ascending, very leafyand copiously flowered. Leaves linear, entire, firm,sessile, or the lower short-petioled, blunt or subacuteat the apex, narrowed at the base, more or lesshispid-ciliate but otherwise mostly glabrous, i-ilong, about i wide, the lower much shorter andsmaller; clusters axillary, numerous, crowded, sev-eral-flowered ; pedicels pubescent, shorter than thecalyx; bracts subulate, very hispid, about equallingthe calyx; calyx oblong, gibbous, hispid, its teethall subulate, nearly equal in length, upwardly curvedin fruit, about one-half as lon
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