About Nemophila breviflora A.Gray
Nemophila breviflora A.Gray is a species of flowering plant with the common names basin nemophila, Great Basin nemophila, and Great Basin baby-blue-eyes. It is native to southwestern Canada and the northwestern United States, where it typically grows in wooded and forested areas, thickets, and moist streambanks. The species belongs to the genus Nemophila, which is classified in the family Hydrophyllaceae. It is an annual herb that produces a fleshy, somewhat prickly stem 10 to 30 centimeters tall. Its leaves are arranged alternately and divided into several wide, pointed lobes. The flowers are solitary, each borne on a short pedicel. Each flower has a calyx made of sepals that are each a few millimeters long, pointed, and edged with stiff hairs; there are also reflexed appendages between the sepals. The bell-shaped corolla of the flower is white or purple-tinged and measures a few millimeters wide. The fruit is a capsule that develops inside the sepal calyx and holds a single red, pitted seed.
