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Lamiaceae > Perilla (beefsteak-plant) | |
Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens) Along gravel road near a creek in Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2011 Plants in this dense stand of a few hundred plants were between a half meter and a meter tall or so. | |
Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens) Along gravel road near a creek in Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2011 Native to India, this invasive grows in moist disturbed areas in NC. | |
Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens) Along gravel road near a creek in Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2011 | |
Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens) Along gravel road near a creek in Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2011 | |
Beefsteak Plant (Perilla frutescens) Along gravel road near a creek in Orange Co., NC 15 Sep 2011 Flowers were tiny, maybe a couple of millimeters long and wide. | |
Annotated habitat and distribution information listed above is from Radford, Ahles, & Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. UNC Press; Alan Weakley's Flora of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia; and from personal observations and discussions with Will Cook, Harry LeGrand, and Bob Wilbur. Supplemental resources include USDA plants website, and NatureServe.
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