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Monarda bradburiana - (image 1 of 5)

Taxonomy

Family: Lamiaceae

Synonymous with Monarda russeliana Nutt.

Habitat

Rocky upland woods, thickets, openings, and bluffs.

Associates

 Distribution

Southern IN to IA and eastern KS, south to southern AL and TX.

Morphology

Herbaceous perennial; stems 30-60 cm, usually simple, glabrous or sparsely villous; leaves sessile or subsessile, ovate or deltoid-ovate to lance-deltoid, acuminate, serrate, rounded or subcordate at the base, sparsely hairy above, villous on the veins beneath; bracteal leaves often tinged with pink or purple, spreading or reflexed, lanceolate; calyx hirsute in the throat, its lobes subulate, often stipitate-glandular; corolla pale rose-purple to white, dotted with purple, 2.5-3.5 cm, the upper lip slender, nearly straight, about as long as the tube.

Notes

Flowers May to June

Wetland indicator: NA

Flowers earlier than M. didyma and M. fistulosa which both have distinct petioles usually well over 5 mm long.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States
and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

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