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Genus of flowering plants
Gratiola is a genus of plants in the family
Plantaginaceae . Most species are known generally as hedgehyssops . It includes 29 species native to temperate North America and Eurasia, and to Morocco, South America, Australia, and New Zealand.
[1] The genus was previously included in the family
Scrophulariaceae .
29 species are accepted.
[1]
Gratiola amphiantha D.Estes & R.L.Small – pool sprite, snorkelwort (southeastern United States)
Gratiola bogotensis Cortés ex Pennell – (Colombia, Ecuador, and norhwestern Venezuela)
Gratiola brevifolia Raf. – sticky hedgehyssop (southeastern United States and Texas)
Gratiola ebracteata Benth. ex A.DC. – bractless hedgehyssop (western Canada and western United States)
Gratiola floridana Nutt. – Florida hedgehyssop (southeastern United States)
Gratiola fluviatilis Koidz. – (Japan)
Gratiola graniticola D.Estes – (Georgia and South Carolina)
Gratiola griffithii Hook.f. – (Assam and Guangdong)
Gratiola heterosepala H.Mason & Bacigal. – Boggs Lake hedgehyssop (California and Oregon)
Gratiola hispida (Benth.) Pollard – pineland hedge-hyssop (southeastern United States)
Gratiola japonica Miq. – (southern China, Korea, Japan, and Russian Far East)
Gratiola linifolia Vahl – (Portugal and southwestern Spain)
Gratiola lutea Raf. – golden hedgehyssop (southeastern Canada and north-central and eastern United States)
Gratiola mauretanica (Emb. & Maire) I.Soriano & T.Romero – (Morocco)
Gratiola nana Benth. – (southeastern Australia and New Zealand)
Gratiola neglecta Torr. – clammy hedgehyssop (Canada and United States)
Gratiola officinalis L. – common hedgehyssop (Europe, Morocco, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Pakistan, and Central Asia)
Gratiola oresbia B.L.Rob. – (Mexico and Guatemala)
Gratiola pedunculata R.Br. – (southern and eastern Australia)
Gratiola peruviana L. – Austral brooklime (South America and southern and eastern Australia)
Gratiola pilosa Michx. – shaggy hedge-hyssop (south-central and southeastern United States)
Gratiola pubescens R.Br. – Hairy brooklime (southeastern Australia)
Gratiola pumilo F.Muell. – (southern and eastern Australia)
Gratiola quartermaniae D.Estes – limestone hedgehyssop (southern Ontario, east-central United States, and Texas)
Gratiola ramosa Walter – branched hedgehyssop (southeastern United States)
Gratiola sexdentata A.Cunn. – (New Zealand)
Gratiola torreyi Small – yellow hedgehyssop (Louisiana and Texas)
Gratiola virginiana L. – roundfruit hedgehyssop (Central and eastern United States)
Gratiola viscidula Pennell – Short's hedgehyssop (east-central and southeastern United States)
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 .
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Gratiola L.
Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 15 May 2024.
^ 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.