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leaves |
raceme |
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form |
flowers | |
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Habitat: |
prairies and moist, open woods |
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Plant Height: |
15-60 cm, erect scape, rhizome |
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Flower Color: |
blue to lavender to white |
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Flower: |
sepals and petals 3 each (often referred to as tepals), colored alike making a 6-pointed flower; pedicles to 1 cm elongating in fruit; glabrous; stamens 6; opposite tepals; ovary superior, glabrous with 3 locules, many seeded, stigma 3-lobed; subtended by small bracts |
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Inflorescence: |
non-determinate raceme with many (40 or more) flowers |
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Fruit: |
several-seeded capsule, triangular to spherical |
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Leaves: |
basal; linear; entire; keeled (sharp, longitudinal ridge) |
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Bloom Time: |
April-May |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
bulbs of plant were used by Native Americans and early explorers for food; quick bloomer | |