Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Bractless hedgehyssop

Gratiola ebracteata

Also called Bractless Hedge Hyssop

Bractless hedgehyssop
Photo: Alex Abair, CC BY 4.0
Family
Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
W. Canada to W. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Gratiola ebracteata is a species of flowering plant known by the common name bractless hedgehyssop. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Montana to California. It grows in mud. This is a small, hairless, glandular annual plant rarely exceeding 10 centimeters in height. It grows from the mud of wet habitats, producing an erect stem in shades of reddish green. There are a few small red-bordered green leaves along the stem. The inflorescence is an extension of the stem a few millimeters long and coated in hairlike glands. The centimeter-long flower is a sort of rectangular tube which is yellowish or off-white. The fruit is a spherical capsule a few millimeters wide.

Other Gratiola plants

Little amphianthus · Sticky hedgehyssop · Matted Brooklime · Florida hedgehyssop · Boggs Lake hedgehyssop · Rough hedgehyssop · Clammy hedgehyssop · Hedgehyssop · Austral Brooklime · Shaggy hedgehyssop · Limestone hedgehyssop · Hedgehyssops

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gratiola ebracteata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…