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Ellisia nyctelea (Linnaeus) Linnaeus. Common name: Waterpod, Aunt Lucy. Phenology: Apr-Jul. Habitat: Moist shaded forests, especially bottomlands. Distribution: IN and MI west to AB, south to AR and OK; disjunct in e. North America from s. NY and NJ south to sc. VA (Pittsylvania County); likely to occur in nc. NC.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, F, G, GrPl, GW2, Il, K4, Mi, Mo2, NcTx, NE, NY, Pa, Tx, Va, W, WV, Constance (1940); = n/a — Tat; = Nyctelea nyctelea (L.) Britton — S. Basionym: Ipomoea nyctelea L. 1753

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACU
  • Great Plains: FACU
  • Midwest: FAC
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FAC

Heliophily ⓘ: 3

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect annual of moist shaded forests, especially bottomlands.

Stems: Stems thick and succulent, purplish, freely branched, rough-hairy.

Leaves: Leaves opposite (some alternate above); petiolate and widely spreading; to 4 in. long; pinnately divided into 5-13 lance-shaped or linear segments that are alternate or opposite on the rachis, each with 3-5 large teeth or lobes; hairy above.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary on short, hairy stalks from upper leaf axils (sometimes also terminal in droopy, few-flowered clusters); white to pale blue; 1/4 in. wide; bell-shaped; consisting of 5 corolla lobes (sometimes with tiny purple lines) and a hairy calyx with 5 lance-shaped lobes.

Fruits: Fruit a hairy, round, 2-sectioned capsule.

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Height: 4-16 in.

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description: Erect annual of moist shaded forests, especially bottomlands.

stems: Stems thick and succulent, purplish, freely branched, rough-hairy.

leaves: Leaves opposite (some alternate above); petiolate and widely spreading; to 4 in. long; pinnately divided into 5-13 lance-shaped or linear segments that are alternate or opposite on the rachis, each with 3-5 large teeth or lobes; hairy above.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary on short, hairy stalks from upper leaf axils (sometimes also terminal in droopy, few-flowered clusters); white to pale blue; 1/4 in. wide; bell-shaped; consisting of 5 corolla lobes (sometimes with tiny purple lines) and a hairy calyx with 5 lance-shaped lobes.

fruits: Fruit a hairy, round, 2-sectioned capsule.

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