Common Name: american bugleweed, cut-leaves, water horehoundScientific Name: Lycopus americanus Muhl. ex BartonFamily Name: Lamiaceae (Labiatae) - Mint FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cyclenative perennial, reproducing by seed, rhizomes, and roots stems Stemsupright, solitary sometimes branched at base, square and ridged , slender, smooth, sometimes reddish, scattered hairs, dense hairs at node Leavesopposite, lanceolate to oval, sessile or very short petiole, deeply lobed become smaller and unlobed above, lobed often to mid-vein below, smooth with hairs on veins below, wide-spaced along stem Flowers4 to 5-petaled forming tube, white very small pink-purple spots; axillary cluster above, whorled, dense