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Mertensia virginica (common names Virginia bluebells, Virginia cowslip, lungwort oysterleaf, Roanoke bells) is a spring ephemeral plant with bell-shaped sky-blue flowers, native to eastern North America.

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1. (c) yakfur, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by yakfur
2. (c) John Beetham, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by John Beetham
3. (c) Ghislain118 (AD), some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mertensia_virginica.jpg
4. (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://eol.org/media/6984097
5. (c) Dguendel, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin-Dahlem,_botanischer_Garten,_Mertensia_virginica.JPG
6. (c) Jarek Tuszyński, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bull_Run_Park_-_Mertensia_virginica_-_11.jpg
7. (c) David Govoni, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by David Govoni
8. Adapted by Murfreesboro,TN, Natural Resource Division from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertensia_virginica

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• 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)
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online

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