Seymeria
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Read about Seymeria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Seymeria (named in honor of Henry Seymer, an English naturalist). Scrophulariaceae. Erect branched annual or perennial, mostly hardy herbs, used for bedding on account of their fls.: lvs. mostly opposite, incise-dentate or dissected, the uppermost floral ones reduced to entire bracts: fls. in interrupted racemes or spicate, the pedicels solitary and without bracts, yellow; calyx campanulate, with 5 narrow, entire or denticulate lobes; corolla-tube short and broad, rarely exserted, the throat broad, 5-lobed, the lobes broad or oblong, spreading; stamens, 4, subequal: caps. globose at base, the apex frequently compressed, acuminate or beaked.—Ten species, 9 from N. Amer., Texas-Mex. region and 1 from Madagascar. Seeds are sown in a well-drained bed of rather light rich soil. S. pectinata, Pursh. About 1 ft. high, minutely viscid-pubescent or glabrate: lvs. pinnately parted into rather few short- or oblong-linear divisions or the upper incisely few-toothed or entire: calyx-lobes linear; corolla hairy outside. N. C. to Fla. and Ala., perhaps to Texas. S. tenuifolia, Pursh. About 2-4 ft. high, very slender: lvs. copiously 1-2-pinnately parted: fls. on filiform pedicels; calyx-lobes setaceous; corolla very deeply cleft, the lobes oblong. N. C. to Fla. and Texas. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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