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Texas Skullcap
Scutellaria drummondii
Texas Skullcap is a small, low-branching annual wildflower in the mint family that forms a tidy, mounding clump rarely taller than a foot. Two-lipped, bluish-purple flowers crowded along the upper stems open in early spring and are readily visited by bees. Native to open prairies, savannas and woodland edges on limestone-derived and other well-drained ground, it tolerates heat and drought and completes its life cycle before summer, reseeding for the following year.
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Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 8–10
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry
Vertical layer
Herbaceous- Soil pH
- Not yet recorded
- Plant type
- Annual
- Mature height
- 6–12 in
- Mature spread
- Not yet recorded
- Plant spacing
- 9–12 in
- Root type
- Not yet recorded
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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