''Gratiola'' is a genus of plants in the family
Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae, the plantain family, is a large, diverse family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales that includes common flowers such as snapdragon and foxglove. It is unrelated to the banana-like fruit also called "plantain." In older cl ...
. Most species are known generally as hedgehyssops. The genus was previously included in the family
Scrophulariaceae
The Scrophulariaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the figwort family. The plants are annual and perennial herbs, as well as shrubs. Flowers have bilateral (zygomorphic) or rarely radial (actinomorphic) symmetry. The Scr ...
.
Species include:
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Gratiola amphiantha'' - pool sprite, snorkelwort
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Gratiola aurea'' - golden hedgehyssop
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Gratiola brevifolia'' - sticky hedgehyssop
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Gratiola ebracteata'' - bractless hedgehyssop
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Gratiola flava'' - yellow hedgehyssop
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Gratiola floridana'' - Florida hedgehyssop
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Gratiola heterosepala'' - Boggs Lake hedgehyssop
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Gratiola neglecta'' - clammy hedgehyssop
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Gratiola officinalis
''Gratiola officinalis'', the gratiole, common hedgehyssop, grace of God, Gratia Dei, hedge hyssop, hedge-hyssop,(Oxford English Dictionary) or herb of grace, is an ornamental plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is a rhizomatous perennial her ...
'' - common hedgehyssop
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Gratiola peruviana'' - Austral brooklime (native to South America and Australasia)
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Gratiola pubescens
''Gratiola'' is a genus of plants in the family Plantaginaceae. Most species are known generally as hedgehyssops. The genus was previously included in the family Scrophulariaceae.
Species include:
*'' Gratiola amphiantha'' - pool sprite, snorkel ...
'' - Hairy brooklime (native to Australia)
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Gratiola quartermaniae'' - limestone hedgehyssop
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Gratiola ramosa'' - branched hedgehyssop
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Gratiola virginiana'' - roundfruit hedgehyssop
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Gratiola viscidula'' - Short's hedgehyssop
Fossil record
Four
fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...
seeds of †''Gratiola tertiaria'' have been extracted from
borehole
A borehole is a narrow shaft bored in the ground, either vertically or horizontally. A borehole may be constructed for many different purposes, including the extraction of water ( drilled water well and tube well), other liquids (such as petrol ...
samples of the
Middle Miocene fresh water deposits in
Nowy Sacz Basin,
West Carpathians
The Western Carpathians are a mountain range and geomorphological province that forms the western part of the Carpathian Mountains.
The mountain belt stretches from the Low Beskids range of the Eastern Carpathians along the border of Poland wit ...
,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
.
[Łańcucka-Środoniowa M.: Macroscopic plant remains from the freshwater Miocene of the Nowy Sącz Basin (West Carpathians, Poland) zczątki makroskopowe roślin z miocenu słodkowodnego Kotliny Sądeckiej (Karpaty Zachodnie, Polska) Acta Palaeobotanica 1979 20 (1): 3-117.]
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Plantaginaceae genera
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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