Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.639657 172.485977
Verbatim locality:
Lincoln
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 15/10
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
25 Jan 2010
Start date:
2010-01-25
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated in field.
Notes:
Herb to c. 75 cm high; main stem and branches erect or suberect. Leaves hispid. Flowers white; corolla c. 1.5 cm long to apex of upper lobes, broadly funnel form with oblique limb having lower lobes much < upper lobes. Stamens unequal with 2 longer ones prominently exserted. Style > longer stamens. Cultivated as a crop, presumably for seed or for pollination by bees. A large field and densely covered with this white form and showing no signs of reversion to blue.