Cymbalaria Hill

Ivy-leaved toadflax (en), Cymbalaire (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Plantaginaceae

Characteristics

Perennial herbs, usually short-lived, with creeping or trailing stems. Lvs alternate above, opposite below, reniform to suborbicular, palmately veined, entire or palmately lobed. Fls solitary in lf axils. Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes unequal. Corolla tube cylindric, spurred at base; limb 2-lipped; upper lip 2-lobed; lower lip 3-lobed and with a pouch closing the throat or mouth of tube. Stamens 4, included. Capsule ± globose, with loculi similar, opening by 2 lateral pores. Seeds ridged, tuberculate or alveolate, not winged.
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Cal regular, deeply 5-parted; cor bilabiate, distinctly spurred at base, the throat closed by the prominent palate, the 2 upper lobes erect, the 3 lower spreading; stamens 4; fr globose, rupturing into 2 terminal pores that later extend to the base; trailing herbs with alternate, palmately lobed lvs. 10, mostly Mediterranean.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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