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Rough Bugleweed (Lycopus asper)

• Family: Mint (Lamiaceae)
• Flowering: July-August.
• Field Marks: This Lycopus is distinguished by its toothed leaves which have no stalks and its long-pointed calyx lobes.
• Habitat: Low woods, marshes, wet shores.
• Habit: Perennial herb with thickened tubers.
• Stems: Erect, usually unbranched, hairy, up to 2 foot tall.
• Leaves: Opposite, simple, lanceolate to oblong, pointed at the tip, tapering to the base, toothed, hairy, up to 3 inches long, without stalks.
• Flowers: Several in clusters in the axils of the leaves, white, without a stalk.
• Sepals: 4, green, united, hairy, the lobes long-pointed.
• Petals: 4, white, united, up to 1/6 inch long.
• Stamens: 2, attached to the corolla, not exserted.
• Pistils: Ovary superior, 4-parted.
• Fruits: 4 nutlets, warty at the tip, less than 1/10 inch long.
• Notes: The thickened tubers are a source of food for muskrats.