Mertensia longiflora Greene

Small bluebells (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Mertensia

Characteristics

A herb that keeps growing from year to year. It grows 40 cm tall. The leaves are oval or sword shaped. The flowers are in a dense crowded clusters. The flowers are tube shaped and hang down. They are 2.5 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.38
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Root diameter (meter) -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Open or lightly shaded places in plains and foothills, often with sagebrush or ponderosa pine, occasionally to 1500 metres.
More
It is a temperate plant. It can grow up to 1,500 m above sea level. It suits USDA hardiness zones 3-7.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 3-7

Usage

Uses -
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Mertensia longiflora world distribution map, present in Canada and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:118614-1
WFO ID wfo-0001215348
COL ID 3ZWTT
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Mertensia longiflora f. longiflora Mertensia longiflora Mertensia horneri Mertensia pulchella Mertensia longiflora var. horneri Mertensia longiflora var. pulchella Mertensia pulchella subsp. glauca