Wildflowers Identified: Marsh or Common Skullcap

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Marsh or Common Skullcap has these characteristics:

• 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
  
• 1/8 to 3/8 inches flower width
  
• blue to purple flower color
  
• blooms in June
  
• blooms in July
  
• blooms in August
  
• blooms in September or later
  
• plant height one foot or less
  
• plant height one foot to two feet
  
• plant height two feet or more
  
• leaf petiole present (has a leafstalk)
  
• leaf petiole absent (has no leafstalk)
  
• opposite one another leaf arrangement on the stem
  
• leaf edge has at least 4 teeth per inch
  
• 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 hairy or spiny
  
• stem is square
  

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