Clasping Venus' Lookingglass
Triodanis biflora
Summary 5
Triodanis biflora (syn. Specularia biflora) is a species of flowering plant native to the Americas and known commonly as small Venus' looking glass. The flower is solitary and has a bell-shaped blue or purple corolla. Its leaf arrangement is alternate and its leaf type is simple. Its leaves are thin, serrate and sessile.
National distribution 6
United States
Origin: NativeRegularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Sources and Credits
- (c) 1989 Dean Wm. Taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/0000_0000/0801/0858.jpeg
- (c) "<a href=""http://www.knps.org"">Kentucky Native Plant Society</a>. Scanned by <a href=""http://www.omnitekinc.com/"">Omnitek Inc</a>.", some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=spbi4_001_avd.tif
- (c) National Museum of Natural History Collections, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10413093
- (c) National Museum of Natural History Collections, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10413076
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triodanis_biflora
- (c) NatureServe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/29104039
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- Calflora
- CalPhotos
- eFloras.org
- Flora of North America (beta)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Go Botany
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- Jepson eFlora
- Maryland Biodiversity Project
- NatureServe Explorer 2.0
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Triodanis ID Chart
- Triodanus (Campanulaceae) Key - Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas
- Tropicos
- USDA PLANTS database
- World Flora Online
- 日本のレッドデータ検索システム
- 植物和名−学名インデックス YList
