Description ³

Herbs, subglabrous. Branches slender. Petiole 0.5-0.8 mm; leaf blade ovate-elliptic to ovate-rhomboid, 1-2 cm, papery, glabrous, margin crenate-serrate on distal 2/3. Inflorescences 1-4-flowered; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm; involucral bracts 2, acerose, ca. 1 mm. Pedicel 2-6 mm; bracteole subulate, 1-2 mm. Calyx oblong to suborbicular, to 9 mm in fruit, base short auriculate, wings to 4 mm wide, apex with 3 small sharp teeth. Corolla white or purple-blue, slightly longer than calyx; lower lip 3-lobed; upper lip entire; lobe apices obtuse. Capsule oblong-ovoid, ca. 8 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Aug.

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1. (c) 106611639464075912591, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by 106611639464075912591, https://picasaweb.google.com/106611639464075912591/MyFlowerAndPlantPictures202#5968585551140920802
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3. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4986967

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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