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Yellow Eyed Cryptantha

Oreocarya flavoculata

Yellow Eyed Cryptantha
Photo: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
W. U.S.A. to New Mexico
Climate
temperate

About

Oreocarya flavoculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae known by the common name roughseed cryptantha. It is native to the western United States from California to Montana, where it is common in many types of habitat. It is a perennial herb growing an unbranching stem up to about 35 centimeters tall from a woody caudex. It is coated in soft bristly hairs. The densely hairy to bristly leaves vary in shape and may reach 11 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a cylindrical cluster or rounded head of flowers which elongates as the fruits develop from the bottom up. Each tubular flower is about a centimeter long topped with a five-lobed white corolla with yellow appendages at the center.

Other Oreocarya plants

Brenda's yellow cryptantha · Osterhout's cryptantha · Oreocarya virginensis · Oreocarya cana · Basin Yellow Catseye · Terlingua Creek Cat's Eye · Oreocarya crymophila · Payson Roundspike Cryptantha · Sierran Cat's Eye · Oreocarya roosiorum · Oreocarya subcapitata · Bow Nut Cryptantha

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oreocarya flavoculata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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