Hydrolea

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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.


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