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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Lamiaceae
Lycopus americanus Muhl. ex W.P.C.Barton
American water-horehound, common water-horehound
Lycopus: from Greek lukos, "wolf," and pous, "foot"
americanus: for America
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 4"-40" tall aromatic forb; stems square; long rhizomes without tubers |
| Flower: | white, 4-lobed with the upper lobe wider and notched, tiny, 2 stamens slightly longer than the petals; inflorescence tight, small, whorled clusters from the leaf axils |
| Fruit: | 1-seeded nutlet,  |
| Leaf: | opposite, usually with glandular dots, long and tapering to a short stalk, deep, coarse, irregular teeth |
| Habitat: | moist |
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