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Mertensia virginica is a spring ephemeral plant in the Boraginaceae (borage) family with bell-shaped sky-blue flowers, native to eastern North America.
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Casselia virginica (L.) Dumort., Cerinthodes virginicum (L.) Kuntze,
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Mertensia virginica is a spring ephemeral plant in the Boraginaceae (borage) family with bell-shaped sky-blue flowers, native to eastern North America.
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Virginia bluebells have rounded (ovate) and gray-green leaves, borne on stems up to 24 in (60 cm) tall. The leaves are up to 5 in (13 cm) long, smooth (entire) along their margins, petiolate at the bottom of the flower stem, and sessile at the top. The inflorescence is a nodding group, or cyme of flowers located at the end of the arched stems. The flower buds are pink, and the opened flowers are usually light blue, but occasionally pink and rarely white. The flowers have 5 shallow lobes fused into a tube at the base of the flower, five stamens, and a central pistil (carpel).
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Virginia bluebells had several uses in traditional Native American medicine, including as a pulmonary aid, tuberculosis treatment, and treatment for whooping cough (Cherokee), root infusion antidote for treating poison, and root decoction to treat venereal issues (Iroquois). Native Americans believed a tonic made from this plant could help heal those who were under-the-weather. Mertensia virginica is edible, including the flowers. In cultivation, M. virginica has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Photos Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) in Ohio Leaves before blooming Flower buds Typical blue-flowered form at the botanical gardens in Berlin, Germany A pink-flowered form A white-flowered form Fruits Woods carpeted in bluebells A bumblebee hanging from a bluebell
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The plant develops very early in the spring and flowers mid-spring. In early summer, each fertilized flower produces four seeds within wrinkled nuts. The plant then goes dormant till the next spring. The flowers attract long-tongued bees like bumblebees, and also butterflies, moths, skippers, hummingbird moths, flower flies, bee flies, and hummingbirds.
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Kanada (Ontario)
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