Willow bluestar

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Willow bluestar leaves

Willow bluestar

Willow bluestar inflorescence

Willow bluestar

Willow bluestar

Willow bluestar leaf

Willow bluestar flowers

Willow bluestar

Morphology

Stem

Erect, simple or branched above, glabrous; branches, ascending.

Leaves

Alternate, simple; petiole 1/12 to 2/5 inch; stipules absent; blade lanceolate or elliptic, 2.4 to 6 inches long, .8 to 2 inches wide; upper surface dark green, dull, glabrous; lower surface pale green, glabrous or finely-hairy along veins; tips pointed or long-tapering pointed; stalks short; lowermost leaves sometimes sessile.

Inflorescence

Cyme, flat to pyramidal, loosely- to densely-flowered, terminal or in leaf axils.

Flower

Erect to drooping; pedicels 1/12 to 1/4 inch long; calyx .02 to .06 inch, lobes 5, united below, triangular, glabrous; corolla salverform, light blue, corolla tube .25 to .3 inch, villous externally above and on medial parts of lobes, lobes 5, united proximally, lanceolate to lance-oblong, .25 to .35 inch; stamens 5, fused to corolla tube; pistil 1, style 1; stigma 1.

Fruit

Follicles, erect at maturity, 3.2 to 5.2 inch, smooth, glabrous, not constricted between seeds; seeds numerous, dark brown, oblong, .25 to .35 inch; coma absent.

Ecology

Habitat

Moist, rocky soil of stream banks and woods

Distribution

Southeast corner of Kansas.

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