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Photographer: Ray V. Rasmussen
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Family Boraginaceae
Mertensia paniculata (Aiton) G.Don var. paniculata
northern bluebells, tall lungwort
Mertensia: named after German botanist Franz K. Mertens (1764-1831)
paniculata: with panicles
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 12"-40" tall, leafy forb |
| Flower: | blue to pink, 5-parted, 1/3"-1/2" long, funnel-shaped; inflorescence a small, branched cluster (cyme) at the end of the stems on a stalks with flat-lying hairs; blooms June-July |
| Fruit: | nutlet, often wrinkled  |
| Leaf: | hairy on both sides, alternate, with a winged stalk and long pointed tip |
| Habitat: | moist; woods |
| (Glossary) |
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