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Calyptrion arboreum (marsh blue violet)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera, Cleistogamous
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  A good ground cover plant but it is slow to thicken up and may need weeding for the first year or so; An infusion of the root has been used to soak corn seeds before planting them in order to keep off insects;
Height [2]  6 inches (0.15 m)
Width [2]  6 inches (0.15 m)
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Protected Areas

Emblem of

New Brunswick

Predators

Microtus pinetorum (woodland vole)[4]
Speyeria diana (Diana Fritillary)[5]

Providers

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Microtus pinetorum, Michael J. Smolen, Mammalian Species No. 147, pp. 1-7 (1981)
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 6Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0