United States, Illinois, Champaign, Champaign; (rented) garden plot at Dodds Park, wet side of North Mattis Avenue at south side of municipal water facility.
Dark calcareous clay with humus. Flowers blue with cream tube, anthers pale yellow, erect, open at mid-day; fruits pendulous; stems ridged-angled, firm-fleshy; common weedy annual herb 1 meter tall; volunteer in vegetable garden. (Cultivated).