Lopezia

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 Lopezia subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Lopezia (after the Spaniard Lopez, who wrote on the natural history of the New World). Onagraceae. Greenhouse plants grown for the attractive flowers; may be planted in the open far South.

Erect, branching, glabrous or pubescent: Lvs. alternate or the lower opposite, dentate: fls. usually small, in leafy racemes or subcorymbose at the ends of branches, slender-pedicelled; calyx-limb 4-parted, unequal, deciduous, linear-lobed; petals 4, short- or long- clawed, unequal, the posterior ones narrower, the claws glandular at the apex; stamens 2, attached to the pistil, one anther-bearing, the other petal-like; ovary 4-celled: caps, globose, leathery; seeds obovoid, with a leathery granulated coat.—Species a score or more, in Mex. and Cent. Amer. Little grown, but valuable for the gay forms and colors.


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