| Gratiola | |
|---|---|
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| Gratiola officinalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Tribe: | Gratioleae |
| Genus: | Gratiola L. |
| Species | |
| Many, see text | |
Gratiola is a genus of plants in the family Plantaginaceae. Most species are known generally as hedgehyssops. The genus was previously included in the family Scrophulariaceae.
Species include:
- Gratiola amphiantha - pool sprite, snorkelwort
- Gratiola aurea - golden hedgehyssop
- Gratiola brevifolia - sticky hedgehyssop
- Gratiola ebracteata - bractless hedgehyssop
- Gratiola flava - yellow hedgehyssop
- Gratiola floridana - Florida hedgehyssop
- Gratiola heterosepala - Boggs Lake hedgehyssop
- Gratiola neglecta - clammy hedgehyssop
- Gratiola officinalis - common hedgehyssop
- Gratiola peruviana - Austral brooklime (native to South America and Australasia)
- Gratiola pubescens - Hairy brooklime (native to Australia)
- Gratiola quartermaniae - limestone hedgehyssop
- Gratiola ramosa - branched hedgehyssop
- Gratiola virginiana - roundfruit hedgehyssop
- Gratiola viscidula - Short's hedgehyssop
Fossil record
Four fossil seeds of †Gratiola tertiaria have been extracted from borehole samples of the Middle Miocene fresh water deposits in Nowy Sacz Basin, West Carpathians, Poland.[1]
References
- ^ Łańcucka-Środoniowa M.: Macroscopic plant remains from the freshwater Miocene of the Nowy Sącz Basin (West Carpathians, Poland) [Szczątki makroskopowe roślin z miocenu słodkowodnego Kotliny Sądeckiej (Karpaty Zachodnie, Polska)]. Acta Palaeobotanica 1979 20 (1): 3-117.
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