Lucas Land
Marsh Skullcap
Scutellaria galericulata
Violet flowers with a whitish tube 15 to 25 mm long, 10 to 100 cm tall with slender creeping stems (or rhizomes), blooms June-September. Erect branches bear lanceolate or ovate leaves, with very indistinctly toothed edges, sessile. Found on gravelly or sandy shores, meadows or swampy thickets. Newfoundland to Alaska and southward to Delaware, West Virginia, Missouri, northern Texas, New Mexico and California.
