Common Name: PLANTAIN FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub, some aquatic. Leaf: basal or cauline, alternate or opposite (whorled), simple, entire to dentate or lobed, venation generally pinnate; stipules 0. Inflorescence: raceme, spike, or flowers axillary in 1--few-flowered clusters; flowers few to many, each subtended by 1 bract. Flower: unisexual or bisexual, radial or bilateral; sepals 4--5, generally fused at base; corolla 4--5-lobed, scarious or not, persistent or not, generally 2-lipped, upper lip generally 2-lobed, lower generally 3-lobed, spur present or not, tube sac-like at base or not; stamens 2 or 4, alternate corolla lobes, epipetalous, staminode 0 or 1--2, anthers opening by 2 slits; ovary superior, [1]2--4-chambered, style 1, stigma lobes 0 or 2. Fruit: generally a capsule, septicidal, loculicidal, circumscissile, or dehiscing by terminal slits or pores. Genera In Family: +- 110 genera, +- 2000 species: worldwide, especially temperate. Note: Veronicaceae sensu Olmstead et al. Recently treated to include Callitrichaceae, Hippuridaceae, and most non-parasitic California genera of Scrophulariaceae (except Buddleja, Diplacus, Erythranthe, Limosella, Lindernia, Mimetanthe, Mimulus, Myoporum, Scrophularia, Verbascum). California Maurandya moved to Holmgrenanthe and Maurandella. Mohavea moved to Antirrhinum. Limnophila ×ludoviciana Thieret an occasional agricultural weed in rice fields. Hebe ×franciscana (Eastw.) Souster, Hebe speciosa (R. Cunn.) Andersen only cultivated. eFlora Treatment Author: Margriet Wetherwax, except as noted Scientific Editor: Robert W. Patterson, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: WATER-HYSSOP Habit: Annual, +- perennial herb, aquatic or subaquatic. Stem: prostrate to ascending, or floating, generally < 6 dm. Leaf: cauline, opposite, generally < 40 mm, generally narrowly +- obovate to +- round, +- entire. Inflorescence: flowers 1--3 per leaf axil, sessile or pedicelled. Flower: sepals (4)5, unequal; corolla 5-lobed, generally white to pink or blue, throat yellow, occasionally with white; stamens 4; ovary subtended by nectary, stigma weakly 2-lobed. Fruit: loculicidal or septicidal, spheric. Seed: > 30, 0.1--0.3 mm, evenly sculptured with rectangular pits. Etymology: (Presumed to be aboriginal name) Note:Bacopa repens (Sw.) Wettst. an historical weed in rice fields, last reported in 1976. Some flowers cleistogamous. eFlora Treatment Author: Kim R. Kersh & John L. Strother Reference: Barrett & Strother 1978 Syst Bot 3:408--419
Bacopa repens (Sw.) Wettst.
AGRICULTURAL WEED Stem: prostrate to ascending. Leaf: 10--23 mm, generally obovate; veins > 6, palmate. Inflorescence: pedicel 0--25 mm, < to > leaf, slender; bractlets 0. Flower: sepals 4(5), outer 2.2--4.6 mm, narrowly ovate to elliptic, generally ciliate; corolla 4(5)-lobed, 3.5--5.9 mm, +- pink to white; anthers 3(4), 0.3--1.2 mm, little, if at all, exserted. Chromosomes: 2n=28. Ecology: Wet soil or in shallow water; Elevation: < 100 m. Bioregional Distribution: ScV (Biggs Rice Experiment station); Distribution Outside California: southeastern United States to South America; native to Caribbean, Central America. Flowering Time: Jul--Aug Note: Known only from Rice Experiment Station near Biggs, Butte Co., last collected in 1976. Jepson eFlora Author: Kim R. Kersh & John L. Strother Reference: Barrett & Strother 1978 Syst Bot 3:408--419 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Bacopa monnieri Next taxon: Bacopa rotundifolia
Citation for this treatment: Kim R. Kersh & John L. Strother 2012, Bacopa repens, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=15390, accessed on April 18, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 18, 2024.
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Geographic subdivisions for Bacopa repens:
ScV (Biggs Rice Experiment station)
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