Boraginaceae
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Boraginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Family Description - Fls perfect, hypogynous, sympetalous, mostly (incl. all ours) 5-merous; sep distinct or connate at base or seldom to the middle or beyond; cor regular or in a few genera somewhat irregular, in most genera salverform, but sometimes tubular or funnelform or campanulate, the lobes usually imbricate or convolute; cor-tube in most genera with ± evident, often hairy appendages (the fornices) at the orifice opposite the lobes; stamens as many as and alternate with the cor- lobes, borne on the tube; ovary superior, basically 2-carpellate, each carpel ordinarily 2-ovulate and with a secondary partition; fr typically (incl. all our genera) of (1–)4 nutlets that are attached individually to the short or elongate gynobase; style simple or sometimes 2(4)-fid, typically attached directly to the gynobase and arising between the essentially distinct lobes of the ovary, less commonly borne on the summit of the entire or merely 4-lobed ovary which then separates only tardily into individual nutlets (or the stigma seldom sessile); embryo with 2 cotyledons; endosperm in most genera scanty or none; herbs (all ours) or less often woody plants, often rough-hairy, with simple, mostly entire, exstipulate, usually alternate lvs (the lower sometimes opposite). 100/2000, cosmop.
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Common Names
The borage family