About Gratiola hispida Pollard
Gratiola hispida (common name rough hedgehyssop) is a small perennial flowering plant. It produces white flowers, has villous stems, and forms capsule fruit. This plant grows in the southeastern United States. A 1921 publication recorded it growing in dry sands along the Gulf Coast. It has also been reported on Florida's Atlantic coast, and inland north of Jacksonville at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The Atlas of Florida Plants notes that while this species was often previously classified within the genus Gratiola, recent research (Estes 2008; Estes & Small 2008) supports segregating it into a separate genus that is sister to the rest of Gratiola sensu stricto. Gratiola hispida is mostly endemic to Florida and southeast Georgia, and has also been identified in a small number of counties in Alabama and Louisiana.
