Lycopus americanus (Water-Horehound) - photos and description
15 cm ruler for scale
General: Perennial with an erect growth habit and leafy stems. Stems square and reddish coloured below. Plants glabrous, rhizomatous.
Flowers: Small white flowers grow in dense clusters in leaf axils. The flowers with reddish-purple spots, flowers tubular, 2 mm diameter. Flowers appear in early July.
Leaves: Leaves are opposite, lanceolate, with short stalks and deeply incised. We measured a leaf at 5.5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide.
Height: Height is listed in Budd's Flora from 30 to 80 cm, plant in above photo was 28 cm tall.
Habitat: Stream banks, swamps, and other wet areas.
Abundance: Common.
Origin: Native.
When and where photographed: The above photos were taken July 1st, wet prairie meadow, 70 km south east of our home in Regina, SK.