DAYFLOWER
			Commelina communis - Asiatic Dayflower
	HOME Botanical Terms Lists: Master Plant List Flowering Times List Flowers by Color/Type Endangered Species List Habitat List Use the 'back' button on your browser to return, if necessary.		Introduced from Asia. FAMILY: Spiderwort Family (Commelinaceae) DESCRIPTION: A single pretty blue flower with 2 rounded blue petals on top and a singular white smaller petal beneath. The flower protrudes from a heart-shaped enfolding leaf and kind of looks like Mickey Mouse with blue ears. The plant is somewhat reclining (less in the Slender Dayflower) and grows 1 - 3' and can root from stem nodes. FLOWERS: May to the first frost HABITAT: Open low, moist disturbed areas, roadsides, and wooded borders. OTHER INFORMATION: OTHER OBSERVATIONS: My observations about this plant can be found at: OFFSITE INFORMATION: The Oklahoma Biological Survey has another very good closeup of this flower. Some beautiful closeups and observations about the Dayflower and Spiderwort family can be found at the Institue for Scientific Computation. Even though they're looking at them as weeds, Crop-Net has a good picture of the whole plant.