Northern Bugleweed
Lycopus uniflorus
Synonyms: Lycopus uniflorus var. uniflorus, Lycopus virginicus var. pauciflorus
The photo above shows a close-up of the upper
stem with paired opposite leaves and several sets of axillary flower clusters.
Photographed along an irrigation canal found along the Willard Springs Trail
at Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge..........July 28, 2006.
The photo above shows a close-up view of one
of the compacted, axillary inflorescences of rough bugleweed. Note the slightly
flaring, white corolla tube with short lobes which do not flare outwards greatly
and purplish anthers which barely extend past the upper corolla lobes.........July
28, 2006.
The photo above shows a dentate stem leaf of rough bugleweed...........July
28, 2006.
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The photo above shows close-ups of the axillary flowers of rough bugleweed as seen at Willard Springs in Conboy Lake NWR..........July 31, 2008.
Rough bugleweed (or is this northern bugleweed: Lycopus uniflorus ?) as seen in Swampy Meadows mixed with Comarum palustre, Gifford Pinchot National Forest.........August 30, 2012.
Paul Slichter