NameThatPlant.net: Hydrolea ovata

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Solanales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hydrolea ovata FAMILY Hydroleaceae Go to FSUS key

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hydrolea ovata FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Hydrolea ovata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Nama ovatum

COMMON NAME:
Ovate False Fiddleleaf, Blue Waterleaf, Hairy Hydrolea, Ovate Fiddleleaf

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image of Hydrolea ovata, Ovate False Fiddleleaf, Blue Waterleaf, Hairy Hydrolea, Ovate Fiddleleaf

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_hyov_005_lvd

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_naov_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hydrolea ovata FAMILY Hydroleaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hydrolea ovata FAMILY Hydrophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hydrolea ovata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Nama ovatum

4326

Marginal emergent aquatic (rooted); Forb
Perennial

Habitat: swamps, ponds, ditches, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Georgia

Rare

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Axillary spines present and well-developed, to 1.5cm long

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have petioles.
Margins entire

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
5-parted calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
5 exserted stamens, fused to corolla (pollen is white)
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall?
Capsule

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