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Nemophila breviflora
Great Basin baby-blue-eyes
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Distribution: Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to California, east to Montana and Colorado.

Habitat: Wooded slopes, thickets, and less often in open places, from the foothills to moderate elevations in the mountains.

Flowers: April-July

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Annual

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, sawflies

Description:
General:

Delicate annual from a taproot, the stem usually branched, weak, angled, 1-3 dm. tall.

Leaves:

Leaves alternate, thin, stiff-hairy, especially on the margins and on the petiole; leaf blades with a narrow rachis and 2 pairs of spreading, lateral lobes, these up to 2 cm. long and 7 mm. wide.

Flowers:

Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, the pedicels opposite the leaves, elongating to 5-15 mm. in fruit; flowers tiny, the lavender, cup-shaped corolla 2 mm. long, surpassed by the 5 bristly calyx lobes; appendages between the calyx lobes 1-2 mm. long; stamens 5, the filaments short; style short, shallowly 2-cleft.

Fruits:

Capsule 1-seeded.

Accepted Name:
Nemophila breviflora A. Gray
Publication: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 315. 1875.

Synonyms & Misapplications:
(none provided)
Additional Resources:

PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Nemophila breviflora in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database

WA Flora Checklist: Nemophila breviflora checklist entry

OregonFlora: Nemophila breviflora information

E-Flora BC: Nemophila breviflora atlas page

CalPhotos: Nemophila breviflora photos

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