The plant’s tubular yellow flowers, which are borne on leafy, downward-curving (helicoid) cymes, are 7 to 10 millimeters in length. The filiform style is long-exserted from the flower, and the anthers, inserted in the corolla throat, wither before the corolla is fully developed. Onosmodium virginianum blooms in June and July.
Lucas Land
False Gromwell
or
Wild Job's Tears
Onosmodium virginianum
Onosmodium virginianum (L.) A. DC. is an herbaceous, perennial, erect, hairy plant 30-60 cm in height. The plant’s oblong to elliptic leaves are 4-6 cm in length by 1 to 2 centimeters in width, with three to five prominent veins. Bracteal leaves and a hispid, five-parted calyx with erect, linear divisions subtend the corolla, which is hairy on the outside and smooth on the inside. Each of the five acuminate corolla lobes is approximately 3 mm in length.