Venus' Looking-glass, Clasping Venus' Looking-glass or Clasping Bellflower
Triodanus perfoliata
                    
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left Venus' Looking-glass, Clasping Venus' Looking-glass or Clasping Bellflower right
 
2006 Photograph, Venus' Looking-glass, Clasping Venus' Looking-glass or Clasping Bellflower (Triodanus perfoliata (Specularia perfoliata), Bellflower family), Occoquan Bay NWR, Woodbridge, Virginia, © 2021.
The perfoliata name comes from the way the leaves wrap around the stem.
Jian Zhe Li

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