LITHOSPERMUM CANESCENS

Scientific Name: Lithospermum canescens (Michaux.) Lehmann.

Common Name: Hoary Poccoon

Family: BORAGINACEAE

Plants 1-5 dm tall, arising from a thickened vertical root, stems simple or branched, very leaft, densely canescent-strigose. Lower leaves short, upper ones larger, lanceolate. Cymes 1-3, leafy-bracteate, densely flowered, flowers heterostylic. Calyx lobes 3-6 mm long, very villous; corolla bright yellow to orange, 1-1.5 cm broad, glabrous within at base. Mericarps white, smooth, shining, 2-3 mm long. (n=7,8c) April-May. Roadside banks and dry open woods, rare; Durham and Granville Cos., N.C. [Va., Tenn., Ky., W.Va.]

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