Family | LAMIACEAE |
Genus species | Meehania cordata (Nutt.) Britton |
Bibliography | Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 21: 33 (1894) |
Native Range | e. USA |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | thickets and woods |
Description | rooting shoots to 60cm long, leaves 3-6cm long, opposite, broadly ovate, dentate, long petiolate, flowers 25-35mm long, in leafy spike |
Size | 10-20cm |
Color | pale purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in early spring; cuttings in spring |
Synonyms | Cedronella cordata (Nutt.) Benth. Dracocephalum cordatum Nutt. Physostegia cordata (Nutt.) Paxton |
Territory | 7 Northern America 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (PEN Pennsylvania) 78 Southeastern U.S.A. (KTY Kentucky, NCA North Carolina, TEN Tennessee, VRG Virginia) |