Skullcap is also known as Rough Skullcap and Blue Skullcap.

Plant is an upright perennial. Preferred habitat is roadsides and thin woods, margin of bogs and occasionally at stream banks. Distribution is throughout the Escambia
region.

Leaves are opposite (occasionally alternate) on the stem; short leaf stalks; triangular in shape to egg-shaped. Leaf margins are toothed, blunt tip or nearly rounded. Leaf margins are less than equal; tip blunt to nearly rounded and sides are less than equal; base is wedge-shaped or occasionally squared.

Flowers are in a raceme along the stem (a single flower on the stalk and arranged one above the other). Calyx is two-lipped; corolla is blue to purple; four stamens that extend beyond the corolla. Flowers occur in late spring and early summer.

Fruit is an ovary with two or more seed chambers.

While the Latin describes the plant as “rough,” it also implies that it is “new and refreshing.”