Appendaged Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum appendiculatum)


Appendaged Waterleaf

Every year we return to this patch of Appendaged Waterleaf in Beechview. It’s an unusual plant around here, but this patch seems to be flourishing and spreading, though menaced by the constant advance of Japanese monster knotweeds nearby.

The bluish lavender of the flowers is hard to capture on the camera sensor, but Father Pitt has tried to adjust the colors to look as close to nature as possible. He used two different cameras with wildly different ideas of color balance, so there will be color differences.

For a full description, see the Hydrophyllum appendiculatum reference page.

Thriving patch of plants

We took more than a hundred pictures on May 16 and picked out a dozen to publish. To avoid weighing down the main page, we’ll put most of them behind a “more” link.

Hydrophyllum appendiculatum
Flowers very close
Flowers and buds
Three clusters of flowers
More in the background
Showing the somewhat maple-like leaves

Note the lobed, maple-like leaves, which easily distinguish this plant from its relative, Virginia Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum).

Habitus
Smaller cluster
Double cluster
Single cluster

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