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Tube Flowers

Hydrophyllaceae - Waterleaf family

Sand-bell Nama hispidum

Lavender flower about 3/16" wide. Plant at right is about 3" tall. Leaves are thick and very hairy.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, April 2004 & June 2002 respectively.

(Native of Texas)

Oxalidaceae - Wood-sorrel family

Violet Wood-sorrel Oxalis violacea

Flower 1/2"-3/4" wide closes at dusk. Leaves are like "3-leaf clover" and fold down at dusk. This plant grows from a bulb and will bloom until frost if kept moist.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, April 2005

(Purchased - Native of Texas)

see similar   Yellow Wood-sorrel

Apocynaceae - Dogbane family

Blue Star Amsonia ciliata

Flower is 1/2" wide and 1/2" long. The tube is covered by white hair. Plant shown is about 24" tall. Leaves are thin straps that grow close together all the way up the stalk. The bee that drinks from the tube has a very long beak. Seed pods are long thin tubes that when dry split to drip out segments of seeds. Cows do not eat this plant.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, April 2005

(Native of Texas)

Polemoniaceae - Phlox family

Prickleleaf Gilia (Blue Gilia) Gilia rigidula

Dark violet flower 1/2"-1" wide with white center and striped underside. Needle-like leaves are about 1" long. Groundcover grows to about 2" high. Flowers fade in the heat of the day.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, April & September 2004 & March 2005

(Native of Texas)

Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family

Shaggy Evolvulus Evolvulus nuttallianus

Flower 1/2"-1" wide. The leaves are thick and fuzzy. Plant stems can be upright or trailing to about 8" long. The dryer it is the closer the flowers grow to the stem. Pod is a golden ball.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, April - June 2004, April-May 2005.

(Native of Texas)

see similar   Evolvulus,    Texas Bindweed,    Morning Glory

Plumbaginaceae - Leadwort family

Plumbago Pulmbago sp.

Bright blue flower is 1/2"-3/4" wide with a 3/4" long tube. Leaves have hairy edges. Mounding plant.

Photos taken in Coleman County, Texas, September 2005.

(Purchased, not native to Texas)

? family

? Common Name **zb 11** Scientific Name

Flower is about 1" wide with a 3/4" long tube. Leaves are bright green, about 1" long. Upright plant about 10" tall.

Photos taken in Val Verde County, Texas, August 2005.

(Native of ?)

Similar Species

Flower looks like some of the Acanthaceae (Ruellis sp.) except I did not find one with thin leaves.

Acanthaceae - Acanthus family

? Common Name **zb 12** Ruellia sp.

There are several Ruellia natives of Texas, but they have been in cultivation a long time.  Not sure which species this is.  The plant height and leaf length do not match any I found.  Plants were growing in an alley.

Flower about 2" wide and 2" long.  Dark green leaves about 5" long.  Stems have reddish coloration.  Upright and branching plant to about 3 feet tall.

Photos taken in Taylor County, Texas, October 2005.

(Native of ?)

Similar Species

similar   Stalked Wild Petunia Ruellia pedunculata

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