. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. oliata A. DC. Mon. Campan. 351. 1830. L. perfoliata Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 309. 1894. More or less pubescent; stem densely leafy,simple or branched from near the base, slender,rather weak, sometimes prostrate, retrorse-hispidon the angles, or nearly smooth, 6-24 long. Leavesorbicular or broadly ovate, strongly cordate-clasp-ing or the lower merely sessile, crenate-dentat
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. oliata A. DC. Mon. Campan. 351. 1830. L. perfoliata Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 309. 1894. More or less pubescent; stem densely leafy,simple or branched from near the base, slender,rather weak, sometimes prostrate, retrorse-hispidon the angles, or nearly smooth, 6-24 long. Leavesorbicular or broadly ovate, strongly cordate-clasp-ing or the lower merely sessile, crenate-dentateor sometimes entire, 4-! wide; flowers solitaryor 2~2> together in the axils, sessile, the later(upper) ones with 5 (rarely 4) triangular-lanceo-late acuminate rigid calyx-lobes, and a rotate blueor violet corolla 5-io broad, the earlier oneswith 3-4 shorter calyx-lobes longer than the rudi-mentary corolla; capsule oblong, or narrowly tur-binate, 2-2, long, finally opening at about themiddle; seeds lenticular. In dry woods, Maine and Ontario to British Co-lumbia, south to Florida, Louisiana, Mexico, Arizonaand Oregon. Called also clasping bellflower. May-Sept. Also in the mountains of Jamaica and
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