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Hydrophyllaceae
Nemophila

not marked as a favorite taxon Nemophila aphylla (Linnaeus) Brummitt. Common name: White Nemophila, Eastern Baby-blue-eyes, Small-flower Baby-blue-eyes. Phenology: Mar-Apr. Habitat: Moist, nutrient-rich floodplain forests, often locally abundant. Distribution: MD south to Panhandle FL and west to TX, north in the interior to e. TN, w. KY, and se. MO.

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Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, Fl5, GW2, K4, Tn, Va, WH3; = n/a — Tat; = Nemophila microcalyx (Nutt.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey. — F, G, RAB, S, Tx, Constance (1941); = Nemophila triloba (Raf.) Thieret — C, Il; Galax aphylla Linnaeus. Basionym: Galax aphylla L. 1753

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW
  • Great Plains: FAC
  • Midwest: FACW

Heliophily ⓘ: 3

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image #1 of Nemophila aphylla© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Nemophila aphylla© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Nemophila aphylla© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Tufted, weakly erect annual of moist, nutrient-rich floodplain forests and slope forests.

Stems: Stems weakly spreading, succulent and rough-hairy.

Leaves: Leaves alternate (at least above), petiolate, broadly triangular in outline, â…“--1 in. long, deeply pinnately divided into 3--5 oval segments, which are usually lobed or toothed and hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: . Flowers solitary on short stalks from leaf nodes, white to pale lavender, ¼ in. or less wide, the corolla with a short bell-shaped tube and 5 spreading, oval lobes and the calyx with 5 prominent, hairy, lance-shaped lobes and tiny, reflexed, earlobe-like appendages between.

Fruits: Fruit a tiny, hairy, rounded to oval capsule.

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Height: 2-15 in.

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description: Tufted, weakly erect annual of moist, nutrient-rich floodplain forests and slope forests.

stems: Stems weakly spreading, succulent and rough-hairy.

leaves: Leaves alternate (at least above), petiolate, broadly triangular in outline, â…“--1 in. long, deeply pinnately divided into 3--5 oval segments, which are usually lobed or toothed and hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: . Flowers solitary on short stalks from leaf nodes, white to pale lavender, ¼ in. or less wide, the corolla with a short bell-shaped tube and 5 spreading, oval lobes and the calyx with 5 prominent, hairy, lance-shaped lobes and tiny, reflexed, earlobe-like appendages between.

fruits: Fruit a tiny, hairy, rounded to oval capsule.

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