Curtis's Botanical Magazine

-PLATE-    Plate No. 467

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-COMMON_NAMES- Virginian Dragon's-head
-GENUS- Dracocephalum
-SPECIES- Dracocephalum virginianum
-CLASS- Didynamia
-ORDER- Gymnospermia
-AUTHORITY- Linnaeus

-MODERN_GENUS- Physostegia 
-MODERN_SPECIES- Physostegia virginiana
-MODERN_FAMILY- Lamiaceae alt. Labiatae 

-PLANT_TYPE- hardy, herbaceous perennial
-COLOR- red-violet or lavender with white, streaked purple
-SEASON- July to September
-NATIVE_REGION- Virginia and other parts of North America

-SOURCE- The Botanical Magazine
-VOLUME- 13
-PUB_DATE- 1800
-REISSUED- 
-EDITOR- William Curtis
-ARTIST- S. Edwards, Sansum
-NALPCD- Disc 0414 IMG0083.PCD