| Scutellaria montana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Genus: | Scutellaria |
| Species: | S. montana
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| Binomial name | |
| Scutellaria montana | |
Scutellaria montana, with the common names largeflower skullcap,[2] large-flowered skullcap and mountain skullcap, is a perennial forb first described by Alvan Chapman in 1878.[3] This narrowly endemic species is found in the southeastern United States in parts of the Ridge and Valley and Cumberland Plateau Physiographic Provinces. Populations have been documented from four Tennessee counties and nine Georgia counties and is protected under the US Endangered Species act as it is a threatened species.[4][5] The Latin specific epithet montana refers to mountains or coming from mountains.[6]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
tncwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Scutellaria montana". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ Chapman, A.W. 1878. An Enumeration of Some Plants-Chiefly From the Semi-Tropical Regions of Florida-Which are Either New, or Which Have Not Hitherto Been Recorded as Belonging to the Flora of the theSouthern States (Continued). Botanical Gazette 3:9-12.
- ^ "Reclassification of Scutellaria montana (Large-Flowered Skullcap) From Endangered to Threatened] Federal Register" (pdf). Retrieved 14 Jan 2002.
- ^ http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.action?spcode=Q2IA U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Species Profile for Large-Flowered skullcap (Scutellaria montana)
- ^ Archibald William Smith A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins, p. 239, at Google Books