looking down at half a dozen or so small light blue-violet flowers; one in the center is best in focus. from this perspective we cannot see the tubular section of the flower's corolla, just its four oval petal-like lobes that come to a blunt point at the tip. near the center of the flower, its pale blue-violet color fades to white. right at the base of each lobe there are two small yellow patches, which sort of form an eight-pointed star around the mouth of the flower. and it looks like a little yellow style is poking out of the flower's tube just barely beyond the mouth.
four light blue-violet bluet flowers standing on tall, spindly green stems. each flower's calyx is a tiny cup with four linear & pointed lobes at the base of the flower's corolla tube. the tube has a very narrow diameter, but it does slightly widen as it goes. four oval lobes with bluntly pointed tips spread out approximately on a plane perpendicular to the tube. the light blue-violet lobes blanch near their base, and right along the mouth of the corolla tube each lobe has two minute yellow patches. the flower grow each on their own stem among moss, gravel, and some tree twigs.
a rocky hillslope with scattered patches of moss, lichen, and some old fallen tree leaves and sticks. a spray of tiny light blue-violet flowers with four petal-like lobes float above the surface on slender green stems. the flowers' blue-violet color fades near the center, but at the very center they are yellow.
🌸 azure bluet 🌿
Houstonia caerulea
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