Baby Blue-eyes
Nemóphila intermèdia
Blue and white
Summer
California
This is much like the last, but it is a taller and more slender plant, usually about ten inches high. The lovely delicate flowers are less than an inch across, with light blue corollas, usually shading to white at the center and delicately veined with blue, or speckled with purple dots. This grows among the underbrush.
Spotted Nemophila
Nemóphila maculàta
White and purple
Summer
California
These are charming flowers, their corollas oddly and prettily marked. The weak, hairy stems, from three to twelve inches long, are usually spreading and the leaves are opposite, hairy, and light green. The flowers are about an inch across, with hairy calyxes and white corollas, which are prettily dotted with purple and usually have a distinct indigo spot at the tip of each petal, which gives an unusual effect. The filaments are lilac and the anthers and pistil are whitish. This is common in meadows around Yosemite and in other places in the Sierras at moderate altitudes.
Baby Blue-eyes—Nemophila intermedia.
Spotted Nemophila—N. maculata.
Baby Blue-eyes—Nemophila insignis.