Lithospermum incisum
 
Narrow-Leaved Puccoon

Flower Side, Subtending Leaves Removed

Crooked Lake Provincial Park
06-June-2009

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Incisum: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 
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perennial plants; NOT [annual plants]

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corolla 10 mm or more long; NOT [corolla less than 10 mm long]

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corolla tube well surpassing the calyx; NOT [corolla tube seldom much longer than the calyx]

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lobes of corolla either fringed or toothed; NOT [lobes of corolla entire, neither fringed nor toothed]

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corolla bright yellow or orange; NOT [corolla pale yellow or greenish]

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nutlets 3-4 mm long; NOT [nutlets 4-6 mm long]

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nutlets white; NOT [nutlets brown]

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nutlets smooth; NOT [nutlets wrinkled and pitted]

 

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Lithospermum: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. 
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plants usually rough-hairy; NOT [plants glabrous]

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upper leaves alternate; NOT [upper leaves opposite or in whorls of 3]

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leaves oblong-lanceolate; NOT [leaves ovate-lanceolate]

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flowers several-many, in axillary or terminal, frequently raceme-like, cymes; NOT [flowers mostly solitary (2-4), axillary]

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flowers in leafy cymes; NOT [flowers in non-leafy cymes, with or without small bracts]

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flowers larger, 8-15 mm across; NOT [flowers small, 3-5 mm across]

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corolla lobes rounded; NOT [corolla lobes acute]

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corolla light or dark yellow, or orange; NOT [corolla white or greenish white]

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style included; NOT [style conspicuously exserted]

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ovary deeply 4-lobed, the style arising from the center between the lobes; NOT [ovary merely grooved, the style arising from the top]

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nutlets with no prickles or, if prickly, the prickles not hooked; NOT [nutlets with hooked prickles]

 

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Boraginaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family. 
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herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]

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plants green or with some chlorophyll; NOT [plants parasitic or saprophytic, without chlorophyll]

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plants WITHOUT milky juice

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plants NOT twining

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flowers NOT in heads or spikes; NOT [flowers in long or short spikes], NOT [flowers in heads or in form resembling a head]

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inflorescence usually scorpioid

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flowers with two floral rings, but with the petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell]

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corolla regular; NOT [corolla irregular]

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stamens alternating with corolla lobes, or twice their number; NOT [stamens directly in front of corolla lobes]

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stamens 4 or 5; NOT [stamens 8 or 10]

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style from center of lobes of ovary; NOT [style terminal]

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ovary superior; NOT [ovary inferior]

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fruit with 4 nutlets; NOT [fruit a berry or capsule]