Loeselia

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 Loeselia subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Loeselia (John Loesel, an early Prussian botanist). Polemoniaceae. Greenhouse plants, grown in the open far South, for their flowers.

Very close to Gilia, and often confused with it; and the genus is variously defined. As accepted by Peter in Engler & Prantl, it comprises 16 species in N.VV. N. Amer., Mex., Cent. Amer. and northwestern Trop. S. Amer. The species occur very little north of Mex., however. As finally outlined by Gray (Suppl. Syn. Fl.), it has "fls. involucrate or involucellate; both bracts and calyx wholly or partly scarious; corolla funnelform, either regular or 1 or 2 sinuses deeper; seeds winged or margined, the surface becoming mucilaginous when wetted: suffruticose, rarely annual, with spinulose toothed lvs."

L. coccinea, Don, is a handsome plant with brilliant rose-red tubular-trumpet-shaped fls. an inch long in terminal fascicles or compound bracted racemes, with stamens and 3-lobed stigma exserted: lvs. small and stiffish, oval or cuneate-oval, sharply and often spinulose dentate, grayish green: plant strict, pubescent, woody, perennial. Winter bloomer. It is offered in Calif. L. tenuifolia, Gray, and L. effusa, Gray, of S. Calif., are phlox-like plants offered some years ago. The former, Gray subsequently referred to Gilia tenuifolia, Gray, and the latter to Gilia Dunnii, Kellogg.


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