2801

Forb
Biennial

Native: north & west of the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in - - -

Look for it in rich forests, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Prinicipal stem leaves palmately lobed, maple-like (unlike pinnately divided basal leaves)
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Lavender
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-parted campanulate calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p139
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p072
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p206
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p244

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Hydrophyllum appendiculatum   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hydrophyllum appendiculatum   FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Decemium appendiculatum