Dicerandra modesta

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| status = G1

| status_system = TNC

| status_ref ={{cite web|url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1013429/Dicerandra_modesta|title=Dicerandra modesta|website=NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer|author=NatureServe|publisher=NatureServe|location=Arlington, Virginia|date=5 April 2024|access-date=17 April 2024}}

| genus = Dicerandra

| species = modesta

| authority = (Huck) Huck

|synonyms=Dicerandra frutescens ssp. modesta Huck

|synonyms_ref={{ITIS|taxon=Dicerandra modesta (Huck) Huck|id=832786|access-date=17 April 2024}}

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Dicerandra modesta is a species of Dicerandra endemic to the Lake Wales Ridge in Central Florida, United States. It is commonly known as blushing scrub balm.{{Cite book |last=Hammer |first=Roger L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nc-rCwAAQBAJ&dq=Dicerandra+modesta&pg=PA64 |title=Central Florida Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Lake Wales Ridge, Ocala National Forest, Disney Wilderness Preserve, and More than 60 State Parks and Preserves |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2016 |pages=64|isbn=9781493022168 }} It is a listed state and federal endangered species. It is known only from a few populations in Polk County, Florida.{{Cite journal|last=Huck|first=Robin B.|date=2001-01-01|title=Two New Infraspecific Taxa in Florida Dicerandra (Labiatae)|jstor=3393153|journal=Novon|volume=11|issue=4|pages=417–420|doi=10.2307/3393153|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/12811|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library|access-date=17 April 2024}} It grows in scrub and sand hills.

D. modesta grows up to {{Convert|12|in|cm|abbr=on}} tall. Leaves are oblong to oblanceolate with a minty fragrance. D. modesta was originally described as a subspecies of D. frutescens. It was suggested as a species in 2008{{cite journal|last=Huck|first=Robin B.|title=DICERANDRA MODESTA (LAMIACEAE): RAISE IN RANK FOR A DISJUNCT PERENNIAL IN A NEW COASTAL CLADE IN FLORIDA|journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas|volume=2|issue=2|year=2008|pages=1163-1164|s2cid=181696130|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/161599|access-date=17 April 2024|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}} based on molecular phylogenetic data indicating that it was more closely related to D. thinicola and D. immaculata var. immaculata than D. frutescens{{cite journal|last1=Oliveira|first1=Luiz O.|last2=Huck|first2=Robin B.|last3=Gitzendanner|first3=Matthew A.|last4=Judd|first4=Walter S.|last5=Soltis|first5=Douglas E.|last6=Soltis|first6=Pamela S.|title=Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and systematics of Dicerandra (Lamiaceae), a genus endemic to the southeastern United States|journal=American Journal of Botany|volume=94|issue=6|pages=1017-1027|doi=10.3732/ajb.94.6.1017|doi-access=free|year=2007}} despite a disjunct distribution and morphological differences.