Common Name: BORAGE or WATERLEAF FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub or small tree, or non-green root parasite, often bristly or sharp-hairy. Stem: prostrate to erect. Leaf: basal and/or cauline, generally simple, generally alternate. Inflorescence: generally cymes, or panicle-, raceme-, head-, or spike-like, generally coiled in flower (often described as scorpioid), generally elongating in fruit, or flowers 1--2 per axil. Flower: bisexual, generally radial; sepals (4)5(10), fused at least at base, or free; corolla (4)5(10)-lobed, salverform, funnel-shaped, rotate, or bell-shaped, generally without scales at tube base, with 0 or 5 appendages at tube top, alternate stamens; stamens epipetalous; ovary generally superior, entire to 4-lobed, style 1(2), entire or 2-lobed or -branched. Fruit: valvate or circumscissile capsule or nutlets 1--4, free (fused), smooth to roughened, prickly or bristly or not. Genera In Family: +- 120 genera, +- 2300 species: tropics, temperate, especially western North America, Mediterranean; some cultivated (Borago, Heliotropium, Echium, Myosotis, Nemophila, Phacelia, Symphytum, Wigandia). Toxicity: Many genera may be TOXIC from pyrrolizidine alkaloids or accumulated nitrates. Note: Recently treated to include Hydrophyllaceae, Lennoaceae. Wigandia urens added, as naturalized. eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald B. Kelley, Robert Patterson, Richard R. Halse & Timothy C. Messick, family description, key to genera, treatment of genera by Ronald B. Kelley, except as noted Scientific Editor: Ronald B. Kelley, Robert Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti, Bruce G. Baldwin, David J. Keil.
Common Name: YERBA SANTA Habit: Perennial herb to shrub. Stem: prostrate to ascending or erect; bark shredding. Leaf: cauline, alternate. Inflorescence: generally open, terminal. Flower: corolla funnel- to urn-shaped, white, lavender, or purple, generally hairy abaxially; stamens included, filaments generally hairy; ovary chambers 2, styles 2, generally hairy. Fruit: 1--3 mm wide; valves 4. Seed: striate, dark brown or black. Species In Genus: 11 species: southwestern United States, Mexico. Etymology: (Greek: erio, wool, plus dictyon, net, from abaxial leaves) eFlora Treatment Author: Gary L. Hannan Reference: Ferguson 1998 Syst Bot 23:253--268 Unabridged Reference: Hannan 1988 Amer J Bot 75:579--588
Eriodictyon sessilifolium Greene
NATIVE Habit: Shrub. Stem: 1--3 m; twigs sparse- to dense-coarse-hairy; dense-stalked-glandular. Leaf: sessile; blade 6--12 cm, 2--5 cm wide, oblanceolate to oblong, coarse-toothed, adaxially sparse-coarse-hairy, stalked-glandular at least on midrib, abaxially sparse- to moderate-coarse-hairy on veins, stalked-glandular on all veins, short-tomentose between veins; margin slightly rolled under between teeth. Inflorescence: peduncle, pedicel hirsute, densely short-stalked-glandular. Flower: calyx lobes 5 mm, awl-shaped, adaxially dense-coarse-hairy, abaxially sparse-coarse-hairy, dense-stalked-glandular; corolla 12--15 mm, funnel-shaped, lilac-purple, abaxially dense-hairy, not stalked-glandular; filaments dense-coarse-hairy; ovary coarse-hairy, style 1--2 mm. Fruit: 5 mm, coarse-hairy. Chromosomes: n=14. Ecology: Slopes, ridges, ravines, disturbed areas, grassland, chaparral; Elevation: 25--880 m. Bioregional Distribution: sw PR (one locality near Poway, San Diego Co.). Flowering Time: Apr--Jun Jepson eFlora Author: Gary L. Hannan Reference: Ferguson 1998 Syst Bot 23:253--268 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Eriodictyon parryi Next taxon: Eriodictyon tomentosum
Citation for this treatment: Gary L. Hannan 2016, Eriodictyon sessilifolium, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 4, eflora_display.php?tid=94699, accessed on January 20, 2020.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2020, Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on January 20, 2020.
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sw PR (one locality near Poway, San Diego Co.).
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