Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Blue ), 1 by htop

htop wrote:
Baby Blue Eyes, Baby Blue-Eyes, Large-Flowered Nemophila (Nemophila phacelioides), Hydrophyllaceae Family, Texas native, annual, blooms March or April through May (if we don't have hot, hot May)

Baby blue eyes is an annual that likes cool weather. It is found natively in moist sandy or sometimes clay soils of plains, woodlands, partially shaded thicket edges, meadows, river bottoms, prairies and coastal brushlands. It can form large colonies with enough moisture. The alternate, stalked leaves are bluish-green and can vary in shape. They are lobed or divided into segments as well as sometimes irregularly toothed. The stems and leaves have fine hairs. The blue to blue-violet blooms are about 1 inch wide (may be up to 1.25 inches) and have a white center. They may appear solitarily from the leaf axils or in clusters at the tip of stems. As soon as the weather starts heating up, they disappear. The blooms are lovely, especially in early morning and in late afternoon sunlight or when backlit. Here's one plant that does well in partial or light shade.

Distribution:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/vpt_map_name?reg=1,2,3,4,...

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/156344/index.html

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