| Characteristics: |
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Habitat: |
fields and roadsides |
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Plant Height: |
15-30 cm tall scape (flowering stem), underground stem a bulb |
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Flower Color: |
blue/purple with white tips |
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Flower: |
3-locular superior ovary; 6 connate sepals; single style with 3-lobed stigma; 6 stamens adnate at base of perianth |
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Inflorescence: |
terminal, dense raceme; typically fertile and sterile flowers in inflorescence; sterile flowers smaller and at apex of inflorescence |
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Fruit: |
3-angled capsule |
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Leaves: |
basal; linear; entire |
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Bloom Time: |
April-May |
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Origins: |
non-native |
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Other: |
also known as English Bluebell; this European native has escaped cultivation |