| Glechoma hederacea L. | |||
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| Family | Labitae — APG family: Lamiaceae | ||
| Common name | ground ivy | ||
| Description | Softly hairy to glabrescent, with creeping, rooting stem and ascending, flowering branches; leaves reniform to ovate-cordate, crenate, obtuse, long-petiolated; corolla violet with purple spots on lower lip, with flat upper lip and narrowly obconic straight tube, pubescent within at base of lower lip; nutlets smooth. | ||
| Ecology | An occasionally introduced weed. Described from northern Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Circumpolar map gives range of entire species complex. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.