Mosla dianthera

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Family:LAMIACEAE
Species:Mosla dianthera (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Maxim.
Common Name:Miniature Beefsteak Plant
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Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Annual
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Miniature Beefsteak Plant is an introduced herbaceous annual in the Mint family (Lamiaceae). It is native to temperate and tropical Asia, and was first reported from North America based on a collection from McCreary County, Kentucky in 1939. In Alabama in occurs in the northern half of the state. Miniature Beefsteak Plant grows in moist to wet disturbed sites such as in roadsides ditches, in low pastures, along trails, on road margins, and on the banks of streams. It is an annual from a tap root. The stems are 1-3 feet in height, usually much branched, square in cross section, green or purplish in color, and nearly glabrous. Leaves are opposite, petiolate, ovate- to rhombic-lanceolate in outline, short pubescent to nearly glabrous above, glabrous below with sparse impressed glands, and with irregularly serrate to nearly entire margins. All parts of the plant emit a musty odor when damaged. Flowers are produced in two-flowered verticillasters in terminal racemes. Individual flowers are produced on 1-4 mm finely puberulent pedicels. The calyx is 10-veined and 2-lipped. The upper lip is 3-toothed with the middle tooth shorter than the lateral, and the lower lip is 2-toothed. The corolla is slightly 2-lipped, pale purplish in color, and puberulent. The upper lip is emarginate, and the lower lip is 3-lobed with the lateral lobes smaller than middle lobe. The fruit is a gray-brown nutlet. Miniature Beefsteak Plant is listed as an invasive species in Georgia and Kentucky.—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
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Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyLAMIACEAE - Mint family
Genus Mosla
Species Mosla dianthera (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Maxim. - Miniature Beefsteak Plant

Citation

Citation Mosla dianthera (Buchanan-Hamilton ex Roxburgh) Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Petersbourg, sér. 3 20(3): 457. 1875.
Basionym: Lycopus diantherus Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb. 1820.
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Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Orthodon dianthera    

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, DeKalb, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Randolph, St. Clair, Winston

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 2020 - 2020

Barcode / Accession No.
County
Coll. Date
Collector &
Collection No.
Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used
Image
ALNHS00000351 Cherokee 25 Sep 2007 Barger, T. Wayne
IM-317		 ALNHS
Mosla dianthera (Buch.-Ham.) Maxim.
UWAL0051724 Cleburne 28 Sep 2018 Spaulding, Daniel D.
15795		 UWAL
Mosla dianthera (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Maxim.
TROY000044045 Colbert 13 Sep 2014 England, J. Kevin
5219		 TROY
Mosla dianthera (Buchanan-Hamilton ex Roxburgh) Maximowicz
UWAL0018269 Colbert 13 Sep 2014 England, J. Kevin
5219		 UWAL
Mosla dianthera (Buchanan-Hamilton ex Roxburgh) Maximowicz
ALNHS00002984 Colbert 23 Sep 2014 Barger, T. Wayne
FH-565		 ALNHS
Mosla dianthera (Buch.-Ham.) Maxim.
AUA000040236 Colbert 23 Sep 2014 BARGER, T.WAYNE
FH-565		 AUA
MOSLA DIANTHERA (BUCH) MAXIM.
UWAL0052082 DeKalb 19 Sep 2020 Keener, Brian R.
11934		 UWAL
Mosla dianthera (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Maxim.
TROY000050564 Greene 09 Sep 2018 Keener, Brian R.
10864		 TROY
Mosla dianthera (Buchanan-Hamilton ex Roxburgh) Maximowicz
UWAL0047381 Greene 09 Sep 2018 Keener, Brian R.
10864		 UWAL
Mosla dianthera (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Maxim.
AUA_ACC_53582 Jackson 20 Sep 1991 GUNN, SCOTT C.
2104		 AUA
MOSLA DIANTHERA (BUCH) MAXIM.
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