Scutellaria ovata
Encyclopedia
Scutellaria ovata, commonly known as the heart-leaf skullcap
, is a member of the mint family
. Its range in the United States
is from Minnesota
to Florida
, and from Kansas
to the Atlantic coast, although the plant is listed as threatened in Minnesota and was considered "probably extirpated" from Michigan
.
Recently, heart-leaf skullcap was found in The Nature Conservancy
's Ives Road Fen Preserve in Tecumseh
, Michigan. This was the first documented occurrence of the species in Michigan since 1918.
Scutellaria
Scutellaria is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It contains about 300 species, which are commonly known as skullcaps...
, is a member of the mint family
Lamiaceae
The mints, taxonomically known as Lamiaceae or Labiatae, are a family of flowering plants. They have traditionally been considered closely related to Verbenaceae, but in the 1990s, phylogenetic studies suggested that many genera classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae...
. Its range in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
is from Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
to Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, and from Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
to the Atlantic coast, although the plant is listed as threatened in Minnesota and was considered "probably extirpated" from Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
.
Recently, heart-leaf skullcap was found in The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy is a US charitable environmental organization that works to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive....
's Ives Road Fen Preserve in Tecumseh
Tecumseh, Michigan
Tecumseh is a small city in Lenawee County of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated where M-50 crosses the River Raisin, a few miles east of M-52. Tecumseh is about SW of Detroit, south of Ann Arbor and north of Toledo, OH....
, Michigan. This was the first documented occurrence of the species in Michigan since 1918.