BALLHEAD WATERLEAF 



HydrophyHum capita'tum 



W98 



Loaves mostly basal, long- 

 stalked, 4 to 12 in. long, hairy, 

 darker green above than below, 

 divided into 5 to 7 main lobes; 

 lobes 1 to 2 in. long, oblong to 

 egg-shaped or reverse-egg- 

 shaped, blunt or abruptly 

 sharp-tipped, sometimes 2- or 

 3-cleft or again lobed 



Flowers violet-blue, in dense, 

 ball-shaped (capitate) clusters; 

 flower-cluster stalk (peduncle) 

 shorter than the leafstalks 



Threadlike stalk (style) 2- 

 cleft, equaling the stamens 



Outer flower parts (sepals) 5, 

 linear-oblong, about % as long 

 as united petals (corolla), 

 united at base, very hairy 



Corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed, 

 to % in. long 



Stamens 5, protruding; stalks 

 (filaments) long, threadlike, 

 hairy at the middle 



' Hoots fleshy, fibrous 



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