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Meehania cordata

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Meehania cordata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Meehania
Species:
M. cordata
Binomial name
Meehania cordata
(Nutt.) Britton
Synonyms[1]
  • Dracocephalum cordatum Nutt.
  • Cedronella cordata (Nutt.) Benth.

Meehania cordata, also known as Meehan's mint or creeping mint, is a perennial plant of the genus Meehania, within the family Lamiaceae found in moist shady banks west of Pennsylvania to Illinois, Tennessee, and North Carolina around the month of June.

Description

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Meehania, which was named by Nathaniel Lord Britton for the late Thomas Meehan, Philadelphian botanist, is a dicot perennial plant with calyx rather obliquely 5-toothed, 15 nerved. Corolla ample, expanded at the throat; the upper lip flattish or concave, 2-lobed, the lower 3-cleft, the middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending, the lower pair shorter; anther-cells parallel. Low stoloniferous herb, with a pale purplish flowers.[2]

Meehania cordata, which is one of seven species of the genus Meehania and named by the English botanist Thomas Nuttall, are low, with slender runners, hairy; leaves broadly heart-shaped, crenate, petioled, the floral shorter than the calyx; whorls few-flowered, at the summit of short ascending stems; corolla hairy inside, 2–3.5 cm (13161+38 in) long; stamens shorter than the upper lip. .[2]

Distribution

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It is mostly found in eastern North America, in the following states:

  • Illinois
  • Kentucky
  • North Carolina
  • Ohio
  • Pennsylvania
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia
  • West Virginia

Threatened and endangered information

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This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state.

  • Pennsylvania: heart-leafed meehania: Endangered[3]
  • Tennessee: heartleaf meehania: Threatened[3]

References

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  1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ a b Gray, Asa (1908). Gray's New Manual of Botany. New York: American Book Company.
  3. ^ a b "USDA Plants". United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 15 May 2011.