Scientific Editor: Robert Patterson, Thomas J. Note: Leptodactylon moved to Linanthus.Д®Flora Treatment Author: Robert Patterson, family description, key to genera, except as noted Genera In Family: 26 genera, 314 species: America, northern Europe, northern Asia some cultivated ( Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox). Seed: 1-many, when wetted swelling or not, gelatinous or not. Flower: open evening calyx 8-12 mm, glabrous adaxially, membrane much wider than lobes corolla funnel-shaped, tube 4-5 mm, lobes 7-8 mm, cream or white with light purple shading on abaxial margins stamens attached in upper tube. Flower: sepals generally 5, fused at base, translucent membrane generally connecting lobes, torn by fruit corolla generally 5-lobed, radial or bilateral, salverform to bell-shaped, throat often well defined stamens generally 5, epipetalous, attached at >= 1 level, filaments of >= 1 length, pollen white, yellow, blue, or red ovary superior, chambers generally 3, style 1, stigmas generally 3. Inflorescence: cymes, heads, clusters, or flower 1 bracts in involucres or not. Leaf: simple or compound, cauline (or most basal), alternate or opposite stipules 0. The flowers, up to 7 in a cluster are held on a dark stemmed dense branched terminal inflorescence (cyme). Leaves are coloured blue-green and tinged with red-purple colouring, especially when planted in strong sunlight. The large trumpet-shaped bluish purple flowers are 1 1/8 inch long by 1 inch wide with a lavender throat lavender striped in purple - lacks the white common in other cultivars. It has a vigorous, mat-forming growth habit, producing fleshy rosettes of foliage measuring around 10cm across. Flowers rose-purple: 5-7 petals Sepals united/fused: 5- 7 lobes Leaves are opposite, sometime alternate towards tip Flowers w/out pedicels, meaning inflorescence is a long terminal spike Elizabeth J. Inflorescence: condensed cyme, axillary and paired at node (verticil), each cyme 1220-flowered, flowers either outcrossing (chasmogamous) or cleistogamous. Habit: Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine. Sempervivum tectorum is an evergreen species in the Crassulaceae family.

Light purple flower cyme