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leaves |
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Habitat: |
rocky and dry open woods, slopes, ravines, rocky outcroppings |
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Plant Height: |
1-3 dm erect or ascending flowering branches |
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Flower Color: |
purple to blue violet |
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Flower: |
5 petals, deeply notched at apex, glabrous, typically darker spots of color at base; 5 adnate stamens; superior ovary; 3 stigmas |
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Inflorescence: |
single terminal and axillary flower |
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Fruit: |
3-valved capsule |
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Leaves: |
opposite, linear, entire, sessile, acute, initially pubescent but becoming glabrous |
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Bloom Time: |
March-May |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
also cultivated; resembles P. subulata (moss-pink) which is also cultivated so corolla color can vary on both; P. bifida petals typically more deeply notched, leaves typically longer and not as crowded as P. subulata | |