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Nemophila breviflora
Also called Great Basin Baby Blue Eyes, Great Basin Nemophila, Short Flowered Nemophila, Small Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila breviflora is a small native annual wildflower of western North America, found in thickets and moist streambanks. Give it moist soil and a sunny to partly shaded spot, and it sets seed quickly each year.
Nemophila breviflora is a species of flowering plant known by the common names basin nemophila, Great Basin nemophila, and Great Basin baby-blue-eyes. It is native to southwestern Canada and the northwestern United States, where it generally grows in wooded and forested areas in thickets and moist streambanks. The genus Nemophila is placed in the family Hydrophyllaceae.
It is an annual herb with a fleshy, somewhat prickly stem growing 10 to 30 centimeters tall. The alternately arranged leaves are divided into several wide, pointed lobes. Flowers are solitary, each on a short pedicel. The flower has a calyx of sepals each a few millimeters long, pointed, and edged with stiff hairs, and there are reflexed appendages between the sepals. The bell-shaped flower corolla is white or purple-tinged and a few millimeters wide.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nemophila breviflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
