Category: Seminum | Sub-Category: Wildflowers
Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Chelone glabra
Family: (Plantaginaceae)
(P) 3′. White Turtlehead. White blooms (that really do resemble turtle heads) in tight terminal clusters on upright spikes in August through October. Attractive, dark-green, smooth stems with small whorls of narrow, lance-shaped, sharply toothed, dark-green leaves. A good candidate for naturalizing in any swampy woodland, bog or pond-side area. Native to eastern North America where it is one of the only two larval hosts to the lovely Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly. Sun/partial shade. 3 & T1
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