| Gratiola hispida | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Gratiola |
| Species: | G. hispida |
| Binomial name | |
| Gratiola hispida | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Gratiola hispida is a small perennial flowering plant. [2] Its common name is rough hedgehyssop. It has white flowers. Its stems are villous. It grows in the southeastern United States. It produces capsule fruit. [3]
A 1921 publication states it grows in dry sands along the Gulf Coast. [4] It has also been reported along the Atlantic coast of Florida and inland north of Jacksonville at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. [5]
According to the Atlas of Florida Plants, the "species had been placed often in Gratiola, but recent work favors its segregation as part of a genus sister to the rest of Gratiola s.s. (Estes 2008; Estes & Small 2008)." Mostly endemic to Florida and southeast Georgia, it has also been identified in a few counties of Alabama and Louisiana. [2]
