Key to Echium

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(For a list of species in Echium, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Annual, biennial; corolla limb 18–30 mm diam; lower 2 stamens short-exserted ..... E. plantagineum

1' Shrub; corolla limb 9–13 mm diam; all stamens long-exserted

2. Plant long-lived, many-branched; 

basal 

At or near the base of a plant or plant part. Especially said of leaves clustered near the ground or of a placenta confined to the base of an ovary.

 

rosette 

A radiating cluster of leaves generally at or near ground level.

0; flower ± 

radial 

Divisible into mirror-image halves in three or more ways.

, corolla tube ± = calyx; nutlet black, fine-tubercled ..... E. candicans

2' Plant short-lived, once-flowering, generally unbranched; basal rosette present; flower ± 

bilateral 

Divisible into mirror-image halves in only one way.

, corolla tube 2+ × calyx; nutlet ± brown, prickly ..... E. pininana

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