Meehania cordata

Meehania cordata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Meehania
Species: M. cordata
Binomial name
Meehania cordata
(Nutt.) Britton
Synonyms[1]
  • Dracocephalum cordatum Nutt.
  • Cedronella cordata (Nutt.) Benth.

Meehania cordata, also known as Meehan's mint or creeping mint, is a perennial plant of the genus Meehania, within the family Lamiaceae found in moist shady banks west of Pennsylvania to Illinois, Tennessee, and North Carolina around the month of June.

Description

Meehania, which was named by Nathaniel Lord Britton for the late Thomas Meehan, Philadelphian botanist, is a dicot perennial plant with calyx rather obliquely 5-toothed, 15 nerved. Corolla ample, expanded at the throat; the upper lip flattish or concave, 2-lobed, the lower 3-cleft, the middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, ascending, the lower pair shorter; anther-cells parallel. Low stoloniferous herb, with a pale purplish flowers.[2]

Meehania cordata, which is one of seven species of the genus Meehania and named by the English botanist Thomas Nuttall, are low, with slender runners, hairy; leaves broadly heart-shaped, crenate, petioled, the floral shorter than the calyx; whorls few-flowered, at the summit of short ascending stems; corolla hairy inside, 2-3.5 cm. long; stamens shorter than the upper lip. .[2]

Distribution

It is found mostly in eastern North America. In the states of

Threatened and Endangered Information

This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state.

heart-leafed meehania: Endangered[3]

heartleaf meehania: Threatened[3]

References

  1. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. 1 2 Gray, Asa (1908). Gray's New Manual of Botany. New York: American Book Company.
  3. 1 2 "USDA Plants". United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
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