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COMMON NAME

Obedient plant

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Physostegia virginiana

Plant family

Mint (Lamiaceae)

Plant group

Wildflowers and Herbs

This plant is known as the Obedient plant because if you push the flowers to the right or left, they will stay in the new position, at least temporarily. The flowers look like small snapdragons, but the square stem is a clue that this plant is in the Mint family.
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Identification hints

This plant is known as the Obedient plant because if you push the flowers to the right or left, they will stay in the new position, at least temporarily. The flowers look like small snapdragons, but the square stem is a clue that this plant is in the Mint family.
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Obedient plant spreads by stolons (roots that grow horizontally just above or below the soil surface) so these plants sometimes form extensive clumps. The flowers generally appear sometime from late July to October.
DISTRIBUTION IN TH U.S.
Alabama , Arkansas , Connecticut , Delaware , Florida , Georgia , Iowa , Illinois , Indiana , Kansas , Kentucky , Louisiana , Massachusetts , Maryland , Maine , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri , Mississippi , Montana , North Carolina , North Dakota , Nebraska , New Hampshire , New Jersey , New Mexico , New York , Ohio , Oklahoma , Pennsylvania , Rhode Island , South Carolina , South Dakota , Tennessee , Texas , Utah , Virginia , Vermont , Wisconsin , West Virginia
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