Pycnanthemum flexuosum

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Pycnanthemum flexuosum
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae ⁄ Labiatae
Genus: Pycnanthemum
Species: P. flexuosum
Binomial name
Pycnanthemum flexuosum
(Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
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Natural range of Pycnanthemum flexuosum from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common name: Appalachian mountainmint

Taxonomic notes

Description

Distribution

It is found in moist to wet pinelands, pocosin margins, savannas, and bogs (Nelson 2006).

Ecology

Habitat

In the Coastal Plain in Florida and Georgia, P. flexuosum can be found in low pinelands near pond edges, swales bordering cypress-gum swamps, open annually burned pine stands, well drained slopes, and in flats between the hills of longleaf pine forests (FSU Herbarium). It can also be found in drying loamy sand of grassy roadsides, floodplain clearings along rivers, open marshy areas, boggy areas, fields, and a swale in a burned and cutover upland longleaf pine savanna.

Phenology

Blooms June through September (Nelson 2006).

Seed dispersal

Seed bank and germination

Fire ecology

Pollination

Use by animals

Diseases and parasites

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: Collectors: States and Counties: Compiled by Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.

Nelson, Gil. Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers: A Field Guide to the Wildflowers of the Coastal Regions of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Northeastern Florida. Guilford, CT: FalconGuide, 2006. 62. Print.