Gratiola hispida

Gratiola hispida
	Flower
	Habit
Conservation status
	; Apparently Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Embryophytes
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Spermatophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Plantaginaceae
Genus:	Gratiola
Species:	G. hispida
Binomial name
	Gratiola hispida; Benth.
Synonyms
	Sophronanthe hispida Benth. (1836) ; Gratiola subulata Baldwin ex Benth. (1846) ;

Gratiola hispida is a small perennial flowering plant.³ Its common name is rough hedgehyssop. It has white flowers. Its stems are villous. It grows in the southeastern United States. It produces capsule fruit.⁴

A 1921 publication states it grows in dry sands along the Gulf Coast.⁵ It has also been reported along the Atlantic coast of Florida and inland north of Jacksonville at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.⁶

According to the Atlas of Florida Plants, the "species had been placed often in Gratiola, but recent work favors its segregation as part of a genus sister to the rest of Gratiola s.s. (Estes 2008; Estes & Small 2008)." Mostly endemic to Florida and southeast Georgia, it has also been identified in a few counties of Alabama and Louisiana.³

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