Description
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Herbs perennial. Rhizomes dark brown, ca. 6 mm in diam., usually ascending, frequently with withered petioles; roots numerous, fine, fibrous. Stems erect, usually not branched, 20-25 cm, strigose. Basal leaves 2 or 3; petiole 4-8 cm, leaf blade long elliptic to narrowly ovate, 7-20 × 3-4 cm, abaxially sparsely strigose, base rounded or slightly so, apex rounded, mucronate; stem leaves smaller, short petiolate. Inflorescences 2 or 3, fascicled on stem and branch apices, ebracteate. Pedicel ca. 3 mm, densely strigose. Calyx lobes oblanceolate, 2-3 mm, apex acute. Corolla white or light blue; limb ca. 5 mm wide; lobes obovate to orbicular, ca. 2.5 × 2 mm. Mature nutlets unknown.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
