Physostegia leptophylla Small
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Authority
Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden.
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Family
Lamiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Perennial, from creeping or horizontal rootstocks. Foliage deep green, glabrous or nearly so below, puberulent above, especially in the inflorescence: stems erect or ascending, 6-10 dm. long, simple, regularly leafy to near the raceme, rather slender: leaves few; blades thin, oblong or some slightly broadest above or below the middle, obtuse or acute above, repand, narrowed into margined petioles; these as long as the blades near the base of the stem, much shorter above or the upper pairs of leaves with sessile blades: racemes spike-like, 1-3 dm. long, slender, remotely-flowered: pedicels 1-3 mm. long, often as long as the bracts at maturity: calices 5-6.5 mm. long; tubes turbinate or campanulate in age, accrescent, somewhat inflated at maturity, faintly ribded, much longer than the pedicels; segments triangular to lanceolate, acute or acuminate, about 1/3 as long as the tube: corolla blue, about 2 cm. long; tube rather abruptly dilated just beyond the calyx, especially dilated beneath; lips about one-third as long as the tube: nutlets suborbicular, 3-3.5 mm. long, with sharp edges.
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Discussion
The original specimens were collected by Dr. A. P. Garber in the Manatee River, Florida, June, 1878 (So. Fla. Fl., no. 10). Specimens apparently referable to this species were collected many years ago by Dr. Chapman, no data, except Florida is recorded on the label.
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Distribution
On river shores, peninsular Florida. Spring to fall.
Florida United States of America North America|