Greek nemos — grove, philos — loving.
Annual herbs with brittle, succulent stems. Leaves opposite or alternate and usually deeply lobed. Flowers solitary or in clusters. Sepals deeply lobed with a spreading or reflexed appendage between each lobe. Corolla bell-shaped to cylindrical or wheel-shaped. Petals blue or white. Stamens within the flower tube.
Grown as annual bedding plants.
Seed.
Annual bedding plants with brittle succulent stems and calyx with appendages.
11 species from W and SE North America.
Constance (1941).
Source: (2002). Hydrophyllaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
