Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lithospermum canescens
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
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Read more about Hoary Puccoon at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lithospermum canescens
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lithospermum canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-05-003:
Lithospermum canescens FAMILY Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Batschia canescens
COMMON NAME:
Hoary Puccoon, Indian-paint
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_canescens
March
Flowers 3/8" wide, in cymes crowded in a rather flat terminal inflorescence, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_canescens_1
April
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_canescens_1b
April
Corolla lobes rounded, spreading, entire; tube 7-14mm long; style included, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_canescens_2
April
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_canescens_2b
April
Leaves lanceolate to narrowly oblong, ~ 2" long, softly and densely hairy, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lithospermum canescens
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lithospermum canescens
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lithospermum canescens
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 161-05-003:
Lithospermum canescens
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Batschia canescens
3317
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Dry woodlands and glades over calcareous rocks (such as limestone, dolostone) or mafic rocks (such as diabase), per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in GA Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow-orange
5-lobed calyx
5-lobed funnelform corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Flowers in dense leafy cymes
FRUIT:
Spring
White
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p242
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p077
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p131
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p212
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p249
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p137
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