Heliophila

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Read about Heliophila in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Heliophila(Greek, sun-loving; grows in the open country of the Cape). Cruciferae. This genus includes a blue-flowered half-hardy annual that grows mostly a few inches high and is sometimes advertised in catalogues of flower seeds.

Heliophila contains about 80 species of annual and sub shrubby perennials, natives of S. Afr. The transversely twice-folded cotyledons are an important character of the genus: other important generic characters are pods sessile or pedicelled, 2-celled, 2-valved, dehiscent: seeds in a single row, often winged: racemes long and leafless, and fls. yellow, white, rosy or sky- blue: lvs. various.


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