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flower |
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habitat |
leaf |
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Habitat: |
moist, wet woods or open wet places |
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Plant Height: |
30-80 cm all, erect stem; well developed rhizome |
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Flower Color: |
white to lavender |
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Flower: |
perfect; complete; deeply 5-lobed petals; 5 long sepals, tapering to point with long hairs; 5 stamens adnate at base of corolla tube; stamens and style long; ovary superior |
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Inflorescence: |
compact cymes lacking well developed main axis; dense at anthesis |
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Fruit: |
2-valved capsule |
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Leaves: |
similar to shape of maple leaves |
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Bloom Time: |
May-June |
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Origins: |
native |
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Other: |
also called Maple-leaved Waterleaf; flowers of H. canadense, H. virginianum and H. macrophyllum similar, note leaf structure difference | |