Wildflowers Identified: Motherwort
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Motherwort has these characteristics:
- in a head (7 or more petals): cluster of stalkless (or nearly stalkless) flowers
- tubular petals
- irregular petals: lipped, lopsided, not symmetrical
- several flowers on stem
- cluster or spike of flowers (a spike is a long cluster, with the flowers along the stem)
- 1/8 of an inch or less flower width
- pink to red flower color
- blue to purple flower color
- blooms in June
- blooms in July
- blooms in August
- plant height two feet or more
- leaf petiole present (has a leafstalk)
- opposite one another leaf arrangement on the stem
- irregular leaf edge
- deeply cut leaf edge
- branched leaf veins
- simple leaves about as long as wide
- simple leaves about 1 1/2 to 5 times as long as wide
- stem is square
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Eric Haines,
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