Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Hydrolea ovata
FAMILY
Hydroleaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hydrolea ovata
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nama ovatum
COMMON NAME:
Ovate False Fiddleleaf, Blue Waterleaf, Hairy Hydrolea
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_hyov_005_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_naov_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Hydrolea ovata
FAMILY
Hydroleaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hydrolea ovata
FAMILY
Hydrophyllaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nama ovatum
4326
Marginal emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial
Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - -
Rare in GA
Look for it in swamps, ponds, ditches, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Axillary spines present and well-developed, to 1.5cm long
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.
Margins entire
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Summer
Blue
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-parted calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
5 exserted stamens, fused to corolla (pollen is white)
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Capsule
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