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Habitat: |
rich, moist woods, stream banks |
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Plant Height: |
10-15 cm tall, 30 cm long, creeping; many stems from base; rooting at the nodes |
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Flower Color: |
whitish blue with purple stripes |
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Flower: |
complete; perfect; 4 sepals; 4 rounded lobes, lower lobe reduced; glabrous externally, pubescent internally near the apex of the corolla tube; 2 stamens, anthers dark colored; ovary superior with 2 locules; placentation axile |
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Inflorescence: |
terminal bracteate racemes |
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Fruit: |
many seeded capsule |
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Leaves: |
opposite; entire; very short-petiolate; mostly glabrous; leaves reduced to bracts in inflorescence |
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Bloom Time: |
April-July |
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Origins: |
non-native |
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Other: |
very similar to V. officinalis, whose main stems never terminate in inflorescence while V. serpyllifolia do |