- Nemophila heterophylla
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Nemophila heterophylla 
Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: (unplaced) Family: Boraginaceae Genus: Nemophila Species: N. heterophylla Binomial name Nemophila heterophylla
Fisch. & C.A.Mey.Nemophila heterophylla is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name small baby blue-eyes. It is native to Oregon and the northern two thirds of California, where it grows in many types of habitat, from valley chaparral to mountain talus.
Description
It is an annual herb with a fleshy but delicate and usually hairy stem. The lower leaves are oppositely arranged and divided into several wide lobes. Upper leaves are smaller, narrower, and alternately arranged. Flowers are solitary, each on a short pedicel. The flower has a calyx of sepals each a few millimeters long, pointed, and covered with long hairs, and there are reflexed appendages between the sepals. The bowl-shaped flower corolla is white or blue and a few millimeters to over a centimeter wide. The fruit is a capsule which develops within the calyx of sepals and contains a few yellowish seeds.
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Categories:- Nemophila
- Flora of California chaparral and woodlands
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of the West Coast of the United States
- Flora of the Northwestern United States
- Asterid stubs
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