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 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 Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lithospermum occidentale
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2010)
Onosmodium bejariense var. occidentale
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Onosmodium molle ssp. occidentale
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Onosmodium occidentale
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Onosmodium molle
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 (Chafin, 2007).
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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 (Chafin, 2007).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lithospermum occidentale
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Onosmodium bejariense var. occidentale
FAMILY
Boraginaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lithospermum occidentale
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2010)
Onosmodium bejariense var. occidentale
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Onosmodium molle ssp. occidentale
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Onosmodium occidentale
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Onosmodium molle
3736
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Open woodlands over limestone, per Weakley's Flora
Native northwest of the Carolinas & Georgia
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
Leaves sessile
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Greenish-white
5-parted calyx
5-lobed tubular corolla
5 stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual
Inflorescence a leafy helicoid cyme
FRUIT:
Summer
White
Schizocarp of specialized mericarps (nutlets)
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p241
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p132
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p213
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p137
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