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Eastwood's baby blue eyes

Nemophila pulchella

Eastwood's baby blue eyes is a small California annual wildflower with bowl-shaped white or blue flowers, grown in gardens for its low, carpet-like display. It needs cool, open ground and direct sun to bloom well.

Family
Hydrophyllaceae (Hydrophyll family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water lightly while seedlings establish, then let the soil dry between waterings; it thrives on winter and spring rain.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
10–24 °C; tolerates light frost, and hot dry summers end the plant's life cycle.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SC. California
Climate
temperate

About

Nemophila pulchella is a species of flowering plant known by the common name Eastwood's baby blue-eyes. It is endemic to California, where it is found from the San Francisco Bay Area to the southern Sierra Nevada to the Transverse Ranges. It grows in many types of mountain, foothill, and valley habitats. The genus Nemophila is placed in the family Hydrophyllaceae.

Other Nemophila plants

Smallflower baby blue eyes · Basin nemophila · Small baby blue eyes · Fivespot · Baby blue eyes · Smallflower nemophila · Littlefoot nemophila · Largeflower baby blue eyes · Sierra baby blue eyes · Baby Blue Eyes

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nemophila pulchella 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.

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