STEVENS' NAMA
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Nama stevensii C. Hitchc.
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| Comanche County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 2-10 inches |
| Family: Hydrophyllaceae - Waterleaf Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July |
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| Stems: | | Erect, widely branched from bases to just above mid-stem, covered with stiff-hairs. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, simple, sessile, linear to linear-lanceolate, .5 to 1.25 inch long, less than 1/8 inch wide, grayish stiff-hairy; margins entire, rolling under; tips taper to points. | | Inflorescences: | | Solitary flowers or terminal cymes, in leaf axils. | | Flowers: | | 5-parted; calyces deeply divided almost to base, lobes long-pointed; corollas 5-lobed, funnel to bell shaped, about 1/4 inch long, lavender; stamens 5, unequal in length, less than 1/2 as long as corollas, bases of filaments expanded into minute, free-margined appendages. | | Fruits: | | Capsules; seeds 40-50, tiny, yellow. | | Habitat: | | Open sites in sandy, gypsum soils. | | Distribution: | | South-central Kansas | | Comments: | | Stevens' nama occurs only in south-central counties bordering Oklahoma. |
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