🌷Members range
from annual herbs to shrubs. Some are aquatic (like Bacopa sp.)
🌷Leaves are simple, without stipules, with smooth or lobed/dentate margins. They are arranged alternately, rarely opposite, and usually as a basal rosette.
🌷The inflorescence is usually a spike or sometimes a raceme or solitary flowers may be simply produced in axils of leaves.
🌷Individual flowers are bisexual but may be unisexual in some species, radially or bilaterally symmetrical with 4 persistent sepals and 2-lipped corolla in case of bilateral symmetry. With upper lip 2 lobed and lower being 3-lobed. Stamens 2-4. Ovary is superior.
🌷Fruit is a capsule dehiscing terminally.
Members of this family found in Singapore are "
Amazon Blue or Brazilian Snapdragon (Achetaria azurea )
Summer snapdragon (Angelonia angustifolia)
Lemon Bacopa (Bacopa caroliniana)
Smooth Water Hyssop/ Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri)
Common Plantain (Plantago major)
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