| Author | (P. Miller) Rothmaler | |
| Distribution | Piedmont only, so far as is known. A single collection of plants that were not obviously planted or merely persisting: Orange County, OWASA access to Battle Park, UNC Chapel Hill. Collected in 2006. Other specimens from Orange, Wake, and Jackson counties are from cultivated or persisting plants.
Native of Europe. | |
| Abundance | Rare | |
| Habitat | Roadside | |
| Phenology | Flowers in April, perhaps also into early May. | |
| Identification | Leaves are a foot tall, narrow, and rather blunt-tipped, with a thickish texture. The flower stalk is much taller; the upper third with up to 15 drooping, blue, 6-parted flowers. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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