Habit: Plant creeping, evergreen.
Inflorescence: flowers generally 2 at forked tip of slender erect peduncle, nodding.
Flower: calyx lobes slender, tapered; corolla bell- to funnel-shaped above slender tube; stamens 4, 2 shorter and inserted near corolla tube base; ovary chambers 3, 2 with aborting ovules, 1 with 1 developing ovule.
Fruit: capsule, 3-valved.
Species In Genus: 1 species, +- 3 varieties: circumboreal.
Etymology: (Named for Linnaeus, often depicted with a sample of this, one of his favorite plants)
Jepson eFlora Author: Charles D. Bell & Lauramay T. Dempster
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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