Family: Boraginaceae,
Borage
Genus: Buglossoides
Description
General: annual, 10-70 cm tall, simple or sparsely
branched, with 1-several stems from the base, the central
one generally the largest, with flat, stiff, short hairs.
 Leaves: alternate, the lowermost oblanceolate and soon
withering, the others generally oblong, linear-oblong, or
lanceolate, stalkless or nearly so, mostly 1.5-6 cm long
and 2-15 mm wide.
 Flowers: barely stalked, obliquely set in the axils of the
slightly reduced upper leaves, the flower cluster crowded at
first, elongate and open in fruit. Calyx deeply cleft into
narrow segments. Corolla white or bluish-white, 5-8 mm
long, funnel-shaped, the limb 2-4 mm wide, the tube with 5
hairy lines within, fornices absent.
Flowering time: May-June.
 Fruits: 4 nutlets, basally attached, gray-brown, 3 mm
long, wrinkled, pitted, with a prominent keel on the inward-
facing side.
Distribution
Roadsides, fields, and other disturbed sites, in most parts
of MT. Native of Eurasia, now established as a weed over
most of the U.S. |
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