Hydrophyllum

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Read about Hydrophyllum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Hydrophyllum (Greek, water-leaf; application obscure). Hydrophyllaceae. Water-leaf. A half- dozen or more American hardy herbaceous plants, mostly perennial, suitable for wild gardens and for colonizing in shady rich places.

Plants with pinnate or palmately cut foliage and cymose clusters of numerous small white, lilac, light blue, purplish or violet fls. in early summer: floral parts in 5's; calyx appendaged or not; corolla bell- shaped. the tube within bearing a linear longitudinal appendage opposite each lobe, with infolded edges, forming a nectar-bearing groove; stamens and 2 styles usually exserted: caps. 2-yalved, with 1-4 nearly globular seeds.—Mostly in moist woods and copses. The perennial species are useful for planting about remote borders of shrubbery, where they take care of themselves.


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