Gratiola pilosa
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photo, Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Gratiola pilosa |
| Common name: | shaggy hedgehyssop |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 2 - 5' |
| Foliage: | opposite, pilose |
| Flower: | small white tubular flower |
| Flowering time: | blooms early July to September; fruit September and October |
| Habitat: | sandy, usually moist ground of salt marsh edges, pinelands, open woods and shaded edges |
| Range in New Jersey: | local in Cape May; Cumberland County records to 1937 |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | S2, HL |
| Distribution: |  |