Blephilia hirsuta glabrata Fernald (1899:221)
Hairy pagoda-plant, Hairy woodmint, Hairy wood-mint
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (NatureServe, 2026) or Extinct (Knapp et al., 2021) or Invalid (synonym of monotypic B. hirsuta) (POWO, 2024)
Last record (disputed): 1899 (as sole record) (NatureServe, 2026); 1932 (Knapp et al., 2021 contra NatureServe, 2026)
Distribution & Habitat
Vermont, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Gilman, A. (2015). New Flora of Vermont. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. New York, NY. 608 pp.
Gleason, H. A. and Cronquist, A. (1991). Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, second edition. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY.
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Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Haines, A. A. (2011). New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae, a manual for th identification of native and naturalized higher vascular plants of New England. New England Wildflower Society and Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT.
Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Knapp, Wesley M., Frances, Anne, Noss, Reed, Naczi, Robert F. C., Weakley, Alan, Gann, George D., Baldwin, Bruce G., Miller, James, McIntyre, Patrick, Mishler, Brent D., Moore, Gerry, Olmstead, Richard G., Strong, Anna, Kennedy, Kathryn, Heidel, Bonnie and Gluesenkamp, Daniel. (2021). Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada. Conservation Biology 35(1): 360-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13621 [Supporting Information (Appendix S1)]
Magee, D. W. and Ahles, H. E. (1999). Flora of the Northeast. A Manual of the Vascular Flora of New England and Adjacent New York. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA.
NatureServe. (2026). Blephilia hirsuta var. glabrata: Hairy Woodmint. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 26 September 2026]
POWO. (2024). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 12 July 2024]