Taxon: Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.

Common names:

• false dragonhead   (Source: F Missouri ) – English
  
• obedience   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• obedient-plant   (Source: F Missouri ) – English
  
• falsa-cabeça-de-dragão   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• drakmynta   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [s.], Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Maine, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas [n.e.], Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska [e.], North Dakota [e.], Oklahoma [e.], South Dakota [e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [n.], Arkansas, Florida, Georgia [n.], Kentucky, Louisiana [s.w.], Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.e.], Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Coahuila

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North America [e.]

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allred, Kelly W. 2008. Flora Neomexicana I: The vascular plants of New Mexico, an annotated checklist to the names of vascular plants with synonymy and bibliography.
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist.
• Cantino, P. D. 1982. A monograph of the genus Physostegia (Labiateae). Contr. Gray Herb. 211:85.
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. [= Dracocephalum virginianum L.].
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. [= Dracocephalum virginianum L.].
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.
• Smith, E. B. 1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. [= Dracocephalum virginianum L.].
• University of Texas Herbarium. 2000–. The mints of Texas (on-line resource).
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Physostegia virginiana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Physostegia virginiana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Physostegia virginiana.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Dracocephalum virginianum L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Physostegia virginiana (L.) Benth.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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