Nemesia versicolor
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Nemesia versicolor, E. Mey. Erect or ascending, nearly glabrous below and slightly pilose above, simple or branched, 1 ft. or more high: lowest lvs. somewhat stalked and ovate or narrower: upper lvs. few, sessile, oblong, lanceolate or linear, entire or toothed: racemes sub-corymbose and lengthening, 1—3 in. long in the wild; fls. "variable in color, either white and striate outside or cinnabar-red, striate outside and sulphur-coloured on the throat or sulphur-colored and not striate" (Hiern); lobes of the upper lip equal among themselves and as long as the lower lip; throat with 2 callosities, pubescent; spur incurved or nearly straight, about as long as the lower lip. S. Afr. Var. compacta, Hort. (N. compacta, Hort.). A compact and attractive free-flowering race, 8 in. to 1 ft., excellent for borders and rock-gardens, with fls. in white, rose, violet, and blue. Var. compacta tricolor, Hort., has white, rose, and violet in the fls. R.H. 1898, p. 87.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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