Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Boraginales? order assignment uncertain
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (11/30/12):
Lithospermum occidentale
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Onosmodium bejariense var. occidentale
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Onosmodium molle ssp. occidentale
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Onosmodium occidentale
COMMON NAME:
Western Marbleseed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_onoc_001_lvd
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_occidentale_z
May
Flowers in a leafy, one-sided coil at branch ends, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_l_occidentale_4
June
The style extends well past the tip of the flower, per Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (11/30/12):
Lithospermum occidentale
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Onosmodium bejariense var. occidentale
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Onosmodium molle ssp. occidentale
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Onosmodium occidentale
3736
Forb
Perennial
Native to Georgia
Habitat: Open woodlands over limestone, per Weakley's Flora
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves sessile
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Greenish-white
Bisexual
5-parted calyx
5-lobed tubular corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Inflorescence a leafy helicoid cyme
FRUIT:
Summer
White
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)
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