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Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Harnett Co., NC
3 Sep 2006Statewide and fairly common in NC. The individual flowers on the stalk can be moved up, down, and sideways and will stay where you move them, hence the common name of Obedient Plant. |
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Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Harnett Co., NC
3 Sep 2006 |
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Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Harnett Co., NC
3 Sep 2006 |
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Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Harnett Co., NC
3 Sep 2006Typical leaves are sharply serrate. |
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Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Harnett Co., NC
3 Sep 2006White varieties are uncommon. |
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Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Harnett Co., NC
3 Sep 2006Leaf shape may be nearly entire as on this white-flowered plant. |
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Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana)
Chatham Co., NC
17 Sep 2005And some flowers are light pink, somewhat in between magenta & pure white. |
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.