| Author | Makino | |
| Distribution | Two counties in the Piedmont and one disjunct in the Mountains. First collected in 1951 from the lawn at Duke Gardens, Durham County.
Native of eastern Asia; in N.A. ME to SC; also MI. | |
| Abundance | Very rare, as far as is known. Likely to occur in many other counties. | |
| Habitat | Lawn weed, near pond on golf course. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting April-July. | |
| Identification | Creeping Mazus is a small, creeping plant that sends out stolons that take root. The leaves are opposite and obovate, quite small. The flowers are strongly 2-lipped (the upper quite short), lavender-blue with an orange-spotted, white palate. The flowers are 15 mm or more long (vs. less than 10 mm long in the much more common M. pumilus). | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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