OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Lithospermum occidentale, Western Marbleseed

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_onoc_001_lvd

        

image of Lithospermum occidentale, Western Marbleseed

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).

image of Lithospermum occidentale, Western Marbleseed

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

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)

 

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