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LITHOSPERMUM STONESEED
Annual, perennial herb, hairy, taprooted, red root dye present or not.
Stem: erect.
Leaf: generally cauline, ± sessile, entire.
Inflorescence: panicle-like cyme or flowers 1 in upper leaf axils; bracts throughout.
Flower: calyx deep-5-lobed, enlarged in fruit, lobes equal; corolla 5-lobed, funnel-shaped or salverform, generally ± yellow (± white), tube > lobes, appendages present or 0; style entire.
Fruit: nutlets 1–4, 2.5–6+ mm, ovoid, plump, smooth to pitted or wrinkled, attachment scar basal.
75 species: worldwide, generally temperate, mtns. (Greek: stone seed) Heterostylous or not; cleistogamous flowers present or 0.
Unabridged references: [Baker 1961 Rhodora 63:229–235, Ralston 1993 Ph.D. Dissertation Northern Arizona Univ]

Key to Lithospermum

1. Annual; caudex 0; corolla ± white (blue-white), tube with 5 vertical bands of hairs; fruit ± brown, wrinkled, ± tubercled, ± dull ..... L. arvense

1' Perennial; caudex ± woody; corolla ± yellow, tube without longitudinal bands of hairs; fruit white to gray, smooth to pitted, shiny

2. Corolla 15–35 mm, 10–20 mm diam, appendaged, lobe margin jagged; cleistogamous flowers present; se DMtns ..... L. incisum

2' Corolla 9–18 mm, 7–13 mm diam, appendages 0, lobes entire; cleistogamous flowers 0; KR, NCoRH, NCoRI, CaR, n SNH, MP

3. Fls in open panicles or 1 in upper leaf axils; pedicels 4–7 mm, recurved in fruit; corolla 12–18 mm, 1.5–2 × calyx, golden yellow; heterostylous; leaf blades oblong to lance-ovate, few, scattered ..... L. californicum

3' Fls in dense cymes; pedicels 1–3 mm, ± erect in fruit; corolla 9–12 mm, 1–1.5 × calyx, pale- to green-yellow; homostylous; leaf blades lanceolate to linear, many, crowded ..... L. ruderale

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