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small-flowered nemophila
Nemophila parviflora
Nemophila parviflora is known as the smallflower nemophila, small-flowered nemophila or oak-leaved nemophila. The genus Nemophila is placed in the family Hydrophyllaceae.
The plant is native to the low to moderate elevation forests and chaparral and oak woodlands of western North America, from California to British Columbia and Utah.
From the article Nemophila parviflora on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Nemophila parviflora is an annual herb that grows in the spring. The flowers are bowl-shaped, white to lavender, solitary from leaf axils. The corolla is up to 4.5 millimeters wide. The leaves are 10–35 mm long and 8–25 mm wide. They have 2 pairs of lateral lobes and the lobes are entire. The fruit is a capsule with a single seed.
Varieties. Varieties include:
Nemophila parviflora var. austiniae Nemophila parviflora var. parviflora Nemophila parviflora var. quercifolia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 57353.