WEDGE-LEAF FROG FRUIT
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Lippia cuneifolia (Torr. ) Steud.
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| Comanche County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: Prostrate |
| Family: Verbenaceae - Vervain Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July, August |
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| Stems: | | Prostrate, branching from woody base, to 3 feet long, somewhat 4-angled, sparsely to densely covered with flattened white hairs, infrequently rooting at nodes. | | Leaves: | | Opposite, simple, sessile, rigid, linear-oblanceolate or wedge-shaped, 1/2 to 2 inches long, 1/8 to 1/3 inch wide, often gray- or white-pubescent when young, nearly glabrous when mature; tips pointed; margins with 1-4 sharp teeth on each side above the middle or infrequently entire; smaller leaves often in clusters in axils. | | Inflorescences: | | Spikes, dense, on stalks 1/5 to 2.5 inches long in leaf axils, initially rounded, later cylindric and elongating to 4/5 inch; bracts below heads egg-shaped, about 1/5 inch long, tips abruptly pointed. | | Flowers: | | 4-parted, somewhat 2-lipped; calyx small, membranous, shorter than corolla tube; corolla purplish or whitish; stamens 4, in 2 pairs. | | Fruits: | | 2 nutlets, included in calyx, oblong, yellowish, each 1-seeded. | | Habitat: | | Prairies, stream and pond edges, roadside ditches, waste areas. | | Distribution: | | West 3/4 of Kansas. | | Uses: | | The Navajo applied a poultice of wedge-leaf frog fruit to spider bites. | | | | See fog fruit (Lippia lanceolata). |
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| Wedge-leaf frog fruit leaves |  | | 137 KB | | Comanche County, Kansas |
| | Wedge-leaf frog fruit inflorescence |  | | 90 KB | | Comanche County, Kansas |
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