Index / Search / Physostegia purpurea
§1 Plant
Physostegia purpurea (Walter) S.F. Blake
vernacular eastern false dragonhead — species · Lamiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lamiaceae Martinov
- Genus
- Physostegia
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 85 counties across 4 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 85 counties across 4 states/territories.
Florida view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Bay 12005
- Bradford 12007
- Brevard 12009
- Charlotte 12015
- Citrus 12017
- Clay 12019
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Dixie 12029
- Duval 12031
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Nassau 12089
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Taylor 12123
- Union 12125
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
Georgia view state ↗ 14 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Bertie 37015
- Bladen 37017
- Brunswick 37019
- Columbus 37047
- Craven 37049
- Currituck 37053
- Duplin 37061
- Harnett 37085
- Hertford 37091
- Johnston 37101
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- Nash 37127
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pender 37141
- Perquimans 37143
- Pitt 37147
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Wake 37183
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHPU10 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2926593 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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