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dragonheads and obedient plants
Physostegia
Physostegia, the lionshearts or false dragonheads (in reference to their similarity to Dracocephalum), is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, native to North America (United States, Canada, northern Mexico). They are erect rhizomatous herbaceous perennials inhabiting damp, sunny places.
They grow up to 2 m (7 ft) tall with purple or pink tubular flowers in racemes in summer.
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first
obedient plant
speciesPhysostegia virginiana
Narrowleaf False Dragonhead
speciesPhysostegia angustifolia
Beautiful False Dragon's Head
speciesPhysostegia pulchella
False Dragonhead
speciesPhysostegia purpurea
Spring Obedient Plant
speciesPhysostegia intermedia
Finger False Dragonhead
speciesPhysostegia digitalis
Purple Dragon-head
speciesPhysostegia parviflora
slenderleaf false dragonhead
speciesPhysostegia leptophylla
Godfrey's False Dragonhead
speciesPhysostegia godfreyi
Correll's False Dragonhead
speciesPhysostegia correllii
Ledingham's Physostegia
speciesPhysostegia ledinghamii
Longsepal False Dragonhead
speciesPhysostegia longisepala
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85314.