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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Lightfootia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Lightfootia (Rev. John Lightfoot, 1735-1788, author of a flora of Scotland). Campanulaceae. Under shrubs or herbs (annual, biennial, perennial), of Afr. and Madagascar, with very small blue, white or pink flowers : leaves usually alternate (sometimes fascicled or opposite), entire or toothed, small, narrow and rigid: flowers variously arranged; calyx-tube adnatc to ovary, the lobes persistent; corolla deeply 5-lobed or parted nearly to base, the stamens free: fruit a caps, dehiscing at the top. Species 40-50, Trop. Afr. to the Cape region. Two or three species are more or less mentioned in garden writings for greenhouse culture, but apparently none is in the trade. L. tenella, Lodd. (L. ciliata. Sond.). of the Cape, has erect woody branches and bluish racemose flowers : leaves ovate-lanceolate, somewhat reflexed: 9 in. L. subulata, L'Her. (L. sessiliflora, Sond.)Leaves very narrow, more or less spreading: st. ascending or erect, somewhat woody: flowers many, blue: 12-18 in. Cape ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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