Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Nama jamaicense
Nama jamaicense L.
Jamaicanweed, Jamaican Weed, Fiddleleaf Nama
Hydrophyllaceae (Waterleaf Family)
USDA Symbol: NAJAUSDA Native Status: L48 (N), PR (N), VI (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Nama jamaicense
Fiddle-Leaf Nama
Hydrophyllaceae
Location: Rear garden & lawn, 3338 Yorktown St, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Disturbed, rocky, alkaline soil. Half-day sun, nominal moisture.
Description: Sprawling annual, much branched from base; square stems (2 x 2 mm), fleshy, to 30 cm long. Roots fiberous. Leaves puberulent, medium-green, obovate, rounded at apex, cuneate basally, sessile, to 25 x 65 mm, sides oblique. Infloresence not present. Sepals-5, adnate to capsule. Capsule cylindrical. Seed many, medium-brown, ellipsoid, very small.
County: Bexar
Collector: Eric Lautzenheiser
Collection Date: Nov 9, 1994
Specimen number: 1
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0960
Accession Date: Nov 9, 1994
Accession Number: 75
Annotations: SXFRB (In fruit)