Fog fruit

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Fog fruit flowers

Fog fruit

Fog fruit

Fog fruit leaves

Fog fruit

Fog fruit

Fog fruit inflorescence

Fog fruit leaves

Fog fruit flowers

Morphology

Stem

Slender, trailing on ground, 8 to 24 inches long, often rooting at nodes, sparingly hairy or glabrous, branches sometimes erect; forms dense mats.

Leaves

Opposite, thin, bright green, lanceolate or oblong or ovate, 1/2 to 3 inches long, 1/5 to 1.2 inches wide, tapering at both ends, tip pointed, veins prominent, margins sharply toothed from below middle to tip.

Inflorescence

Spikes, solitary, initially globose, becoming cylindrical and elongating to 1.5 inches, arising from axils of leaves; on slender, erect stalks 1.5 to 3 inches long, usually equaling or surpassing the leaves.

Flower

Calyx membranaceous, about as long as corolla tube; corolla irregular, 1/10 inch long, pale blue, purplish or white, center sometimes yellowish; stamens 4, arranged in 2 sets.

Fruit

Nutlets 2,each 1-seeded, egg-shaped, olive or yellowish.

Ecology

Habitat

Wet habitats; ditches and margins of streams, ponds and lakes.

Distribution

East 2/3 of Kansas.

Additional Notes

Synonyms

Alternative scientific names that have been used for this plant.