Flora of East-Central Indiana

Common Waterleaf
Scientific Name Hydrophyllum macrophyllum  Nutt.
Family Name Hydrophyllaceae (Waterleaf Family)

 

Habitat: moist, wet woods or open wet places
Plant Height: 30-80 cm tall, erect stem; well developed rhizome
Flower Color: white to lilac
Flower: perfect; complete; deeply 5-lobed petals; 5 long sepals, tapering to point with long hairs; 5 stamens adnate at base of corolla tube; stamens and style long; ovary superior
Inflorescence: compact cymes lacking well developed main axis; dense at anthesis
Fruit: 2-valuved capsule
Leaves: alternate; petiolate; pinnately compound; larger than H. virginianum;, not as deeply divided;  rough hairy
Bloom Time: April-June
Origins: native
Other: see also H. virginianum 

Characteristics
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general plant habit leaves close up of flower

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Environmental Education Center
Ball State University, Muncie, IN



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