- Nemophila parviflora
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Nemophila parviflora 
var. parviflora Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Asterids Order: (unplaced) Family: Boraginaceae Subfamily: Hydrophylloideae Genus: Nemophila Species: N. parviflora Binomial name Nemophila parviflora
Dougl. ex Benth.Nemophila parviflora (Small-flowered Nemophila) is a dicot in the borage family, Boraginaceae, in the waterleaf subfamily, Hydrophylloideae. It is an annual herb that grows in the spring. It is native to the low to moderate elevation forests of western North America.
The flowers of N. maculata are bowl-shaped, white to lavender, solitary from leaf axils. The corolla is up to 4.5 millimeters wide. The leaves are 10-35 mm long and 8-25 mm wide. They have 2 pairs of lateral lobes and the lobes are entire. The fruit is a capsule with a single seed.[1]
References
Footnotes
- ^ "Nemophila parviflora". WTU Herbarium Image Collection. Burke Museum, University of Washington. http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?Genus=Lonicera&Species=ciliosa. Retrieved 2007-05-30.
General references
- Calflora
- National Resource Conservation Service PLANTS Database
- Jepson Flora Project (1993): Nemophila maculata
Categories:- Nemophila
- Flora of California
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada region (U.S.)
- Flora of the West Coast of the United States
- Flora of the Western United States
- Asterid stubs
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