YELLOW-SEED FALSE-PIMPERNEL
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Lindernia dubia (L. ) Pennell
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| [=Lindernia anagallidea (Michx. ) Pennell] |
| Douglas County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 2-16 inches |
| Family: Linderniaceae - False-pimpernel Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August, September |
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| Stems: | | Much-branched, glabrous. | | Leaves: | | Cauline, opposite, simple; stipules absent; petiole absent; blade spatulate, obovate, oblanceolate, lanceolate, ovate, or elliptic, .2 to 1.4 inch long, .08 to .7 inch wide, tip rounded to acute, margins entire or toothed above. | | Inflorescences: | | Racemes, terminal, flowers appearing axillary. | | Flowers: | | Pedicels thread-like, spreading, to 1.2 inch. Flowers: calyx 1/12 to 1/4 inch, sepals 5, fused basally; corolla white, lavender, or light purple, 1/8 to 2/5 inch, 2-lipped, lower lip deflexed, 3-lobed, upper lip erect, shallowly 2-lobed; stamens 2, included; staminodes 2; style 1; stigma 2-lobed. | | Fruits: | | Capsules tan, ellipsoid, .05 to .28 inch long; seeds pale yellow, angled or ribbed, tiny. | | Habitat: | | Moist soil or mud, shores of ponds, streams, rivers, and wet fields | | Distribution: | | East 1/2 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Lindernia dubia is extremely morphologically variable.
Genera of Linderniaceae traditionally have been included in Scriphulariaceae.
Named for Franz Balthasar von Lindern, French botanist. |
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