Baby Blue-Eyes (Nemophila phacelioides)
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One of the first flowers to bloom in the spring, baby blue-eyes is a reliable shade-tolerant annual. It quickly grows to about a foot in height, produces vast numbers of sky blue blossoms, then sets seed and dies, usually before May. The stems of the plants are thick, but they are very watery (the family name, Hydrophyllaceae, means "water leaf") and practically disappear once the plants dry up. The heavy seeds simply fall where they were produced so colonies will reappear again in the same place the next year.
class: Magnoliopsida / order: Solanales / family: Hydrophyllaceae / genus: Nemophila / species: phacelioides
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