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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Nama (Greek, a stream or spring, referring to habitat of the first- described species). Hydrophyllaceae. Low herbs or sub- shrubs, little known in planting. Annual and perennial, sometimes spiny: lvs. mostly alternate, entire, dentate or crenulate: fls. blue or white, solitary or in various clusters; corolla campanulate or nearly salverform to funnel-shaped or somewhat rotate, 5-lobed; stamens 5, inserted in base of corolla- tube, the filaments usually dilated or appendaged at base; styles 2, with small capitate stigmas: fr. a membranaceous ovoid or subglobose dehiscent caps. — Species 36, as defined by Brand in Das Pflanzenreich, hft. 59 (IV. 251 : 1913), mostly in W. N. Amer. and Mex., but also in W. Indies, S. Amer., and 1 in Hawaii. One species is offered as a garden plant in Calif.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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