Romanzoffia
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Romanzoffia is a genus of flowering plants in the waterleaf family
known as mistmaids or mistmaidens. There are 5 species which are native to western North America from California north to Alaska. Mistmaids may be annual or perennial and low patchy herbs to small bushes, depending on species. They bear attractive bell-shaped white flowers that make them desirable as ornamentals in the appropriate climates.
Species:
Hydrophyllaceae
Hydrophylloideae is a subfamily of the Boraginaceae family of flowering plants. Their taxonomic position is somewhat uncertain. Traditionally, and under the Cronquist system, they were given family rank under the name Hydrophyllaceae, and treated as part of the order Solanales...
known as mistmaids or mistmaidens. There are 5 species which are native to western North America from California north to Alaska. Mistmaids may be annual or perennial and low patchy herbs to small bushes, depending on species. They bear attractive bell-shaped white flowers that make them desirable as ornamentals in the appropriate climates.
Species:
- Romanzoffia californicaRomanzoffia californicaRomanzoffia californica is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name California mistmaiden. It is native to Oregon and northern California, where it grows in moist and wet habitat, such as coastal bluffs and mountain forests.Romanzoffia californica grows erect to 40...
- California mistmaiden - Romanzoffia sitchensisRomanzoffia sitchensisRomanzoffia sitchensis is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name Sitka mistmaiden. It is native to western North America from Alaska through British Columbia and Alberta to far northern California and Montana....
- Sitka mistmaiden - Romanzoffia thompsonii - Thompson's mistmaiden
- Romanzoffia tracyiRomanzoffia tracyiRomanzoffia tracyi is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name Tracy's mistmaiden. It is native to the coastline of western North America from far northern California north to the southern tip of Vancouver Island, where it grows among rocks on oceanside bluffs.It...
- Tracy's mistmaiden - Romanzoffia unalaschcensis - Alaska mistmaiden