Hydrolea

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Read about Hydrolea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Hydrolea (probably from water, because of the habitat). Hydrophyllaceae. Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs, scarcely cult., of warm countries and a few in the U. S.; species perhaps a dozen: now often included with Nama (which see): branching plants, sometimes spiny: lvs. ovate or lanceolate, entire, pinnate-veined: fls. blue or white, in clusters or solitary; corolla broadly campanulate or nearly rotate, 5-cleft; stamens 5, about the length of the corolla, with filaments dilated below: fr. a globular caps, with minute seeds. Four species occur in the U. S.: H. corymbosa, Ell. (Nama corymbosum, Kuntze). with clustered blue yellow-nerved ns. 2/3 in. across, and oblong to oblanceolate lvs.: S. C. to Fla. H. quadrivalvis, Walt. (H. caroliniana, Michx. Nama quadrivalvis, Kuntze), with solitary or few-clustered blue or lilac fls.. and linear- elliptic lvs.: Va., south. H. ovata, Nutt. (Nama ovatum, Brit.), with purplish or white fls. in leafy-bracted panicles, and ovate or elliptic lvs. Swamps, Mo. to La. and Texas. H. affinis, Gray (Nama affine, Kuntze), with violet fls. in few-fld. leafy clusters, and linear-elliptic lvs. Ind. and 111. to Miss, and Texas. L.H.B. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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