Nemophila menziesii Hook. & Arn. | |||
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Family | Hydrophyllaceae — APG family: Boraginaceae | ||
Description | Stem more or less prostrate, usually branched at base; leaves appressed-hispid, opposite, oval to oblong in outline, divided into several oblong, toothed divisions; pedicels longer than leaves; calyx lobes lanceolate; auricles 1-2 mm long; corolla purple, pale in center, with obovate to oblong lobes, longer than tube; capsule round to ovoid. | ||
Ecology | An introduced weed, or escaped from cultivation. Described from California. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.